Re: Why gcc translate a c program into assemble as follow

"wanderer83" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Tim - you are right. I guess the only thing left is to ask GCC
>developers what in the world were they smoking when they wrote it (and
>can we get some too ?)

Well, I assume there must be at least a few gcc developers who follow this
newsgroup. I keep hoping that, some day, we'll get a reply saying "well, I
checked the gcc source code, and the size of that subtraction is derived
from the size of the locals plus the hour of the day rounded up to 32 bytes
divided by 2" or something, but it hasn't happened yet.
--
- Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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