------- Additional Comments From chris at bubblescope dot net 2005-03-10 16:05 ------- When you say "has no effect in final code", are you talking about the problem you noticed, or the problem as a whole?
I find for each extra X I add to the type of foo I get a line much like: movb %al, 28(%esp) appearing in the assembler output, which I assume isn't necessary.. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20408