https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66682
Bug ID: 66682 Summary: Lots of macro expansion, very slow compilation Product: gcc Version: unknown Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P3 Component: c Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: cr88192 at gmail dot com Target Milestone: --- Created attachment 35857 --> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=35857&action=edit stand-alone code which demonstrates issue Some code with large amounts of macro-expansion (and producing a large number of small functions) takes an inordinate amount of time to compile with GCC (the example, around 3 minutes with 4.5.2 and 4.5.3, and 8 minutes with 4.8.2). However, with several other compilers, the same code compiles within a few seconds. The code fragment represents part of a native function-call dispatcher mechanism from an interpreter (a lot of the interpreter is heavily macro'ed like this, using macros to produce type-specialized versions of operations).