grovenjl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > So, obviously one could just use optimization, but I would thing > that gcc would use all registers even without specifying an > optimization level. That's a conscious choice to make debugging easier; no optimization means *really* nop optimization. > I'm also curious why the gcc team decided to make the builtin > functions return a value, rather than just working the way that the > processor works. I suppose because they're a lot easier to handle this way, and also otherwise they would have semantics which doesn't fit with the C programming language. -- Falk
