> >> Is there any way to improve this behaviour? I have been using 2.9.5 > very > >> successfully for years and am now looking at 4.4.2, but have many > such > >> examples in my code (for clarity of commenting and maintainability). > > > > This is very strange. On x86_64, gcc 4.4.1 generates > > > > movl $7170, %eax > > ret > > > > This optimization is done by the first RTL cse pass. I can't > understand > > why it's not being done for your target. I guess this will need a > > powerpc expert.
Thanks Andrew for checking this on your system. > Known bug, see http://gcc.gnu.org/PR22141 > > I hope Jakub will finish this work for gcc 4.5. > > Ciao! > Steven Thanks Steven. At least I have a handle on it now. Fingers crossed for 4.5 :-) ***************************************************************** This email has been checked by the altohiway Mailcontroller Service *****************************************************************
