On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:04:08AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a piece of C code. The code, compiled to an ARM THUMB target using > gcc 4.0.2, with -Os results in 230 instructions. The exact same code, > using the exact same switches compiles to 437 instructions with gcc 4.3.1. > Considering that the compiler optimises to size and the much newer > compiler emits almost twice as much code as the old one, I think it is an > issue.
Agreed. I think it's a regression. Using -Os and getting much larger code would qualify. > So the question is, how should I report it? Open a PR with the complete test case, and the command line options you used with 4.0.2 and 4.3.1.