http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55137
--- Comment #6 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-11-06 15:37:09 UTC --- What I mean that for your testcase while you have s: .zero 8 instead of s: .long 4, 16399, there is also dynamic initialization: movl $4, s(%rip) movl $16399, s+4(%rip) (at -O2, at -O0 worse).