https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104484
--- Comment #2 from Avi Kivity <avi at scylladb dot com> --- (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #1) > But the assembly output does not make sense to the code you gave either. Apart from the missing .section directives, I didn't notice anything odd. Maybe movl/testl could be optimized into cmpl. Ah, I moved this code from C++ so the function signatures are bad, should be fun(void). With the signatures adjusted, I get light: .LFB2: .cfi_startproc subq $8, %rsp .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16 call fun movl f1(%rip), %edx testl %edx, %edx jne .L8 .L6: addq $8, %rsp .cfi_remember_state .cfi_def_cfa_offset 8 jmp fun .p2align 4,,10 .p2align 3 .L8: .cfi_restore_state movl f2(%rip), %eax testl %eax, %eax je .L6 call very_heavy jmp .L6 .cfi_endproc Which still misses the .section directives and the peephole optimization to merge movl/testl.