The -O0 (that's oh-zero) supposedly turns off all optimizations. I don't know if that would affect the types of things that you're talking about, though. Good luck, Lyle -----Original Message----- From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Siddhartha Shivshankar platform, and our work requires assembly code produced by gcc to be structured. (single entry single exit blocks, no side entries, exits from loops, conditionals with clear merge points, etc. ) We would like to turn off gcc optimizations that cause such code to be produced. Is it possible to define such a set of optimizations at all at the outset ?