On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 01:50:14PM +0200, David Brown wrote: > I would not expect that to be good at all. With no optimisation (-O0), > gcc produces quite poor code - local variables are not put in registers > or "optimised away", there is no strength reduction, etc. For an > architecture like the AVR with a fair number of registers (32, albeit > 8-bit registers) and relatively inefficient stack access, -O0 produces > /terrible/ code.
-Og is better though (better than any other -O for this test at least). The regression happened before 4.7, it seems the big jump was with 4.6? So what happened there? This seems to happen on x86 as well, maybe on everything. Segher
