Preventing gcc from aligning stack???

[Alex Romosan]

"Johan Kullstam" <kullstam en ne.mediaone.net> writes:

> strength-reduction is broken again in gcc-2.95.2 (aka the current
> release).  i'm not sure about what versions actually do work.
> 
> for fun, try this one out.  cut and paste the program bug.c.
> 
> $ gcc -O2 bug.c -o b0
> $ gcc -O2 -fno-strength-reduce bug.c -o b1
> 
> run b1.  notice it finish immediately.
> now run b0.  notice how b0 never terminates (until you ^C it).
> 

not on my computer (gcc version 2.95.2 20000116 (Debian GNU/Linux)).
both b0 and b1 finish right away.

--alex--

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