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From: weening@GANG-OF-FOUR.STANFORD.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: Failure to optimize jumps
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Date: 4 Feb 89 22:38:44 GMT
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With GCC 1.33 on a Sun-3 using -O, the program

  foo (i)
       int i;
  {
    if (i > 10) return i;
    return 10;
  }

compiles into:

  _foo:
	  link a6,#0
	  movel a6@(8),d0
	  moveq #10,d1
	  cmpl d0,d1
	  jge L2
	  jra L1
  L2:
	  moveq #10,d0
  L1:
	  unlk a6
	  rts

Version 1.31 of GCC was able to optimize the jumps to:

  _foo:
	  link a6,#0
	  movel a6@(8),d0
	  moveq #10,d1
	  cmpl d0,d1
	  jlt L1
	  moveq #10,d0
  L1:
	  unlk a6
	  rts