On 07/09/2010 01:43 PM, M.C.A. (Marco) Devillers wrote: > I am writing a compiler and it seems to work somewhat. I use C as my > target assembly language. > > Now I get working programs if I just compile them, but my programs > borg after I compile them with -03. > > The compiled programs are too big too publish here, but I wonder if > anyone has any clue on how to debug this? I do some hefty pointer > arithmetic on (sometimes static) arrays of integers and make a lot of > libffi calls. It may be that the pointer arithmetic is uncleanly > defined/optimized away? > > How can I test this? What compiler switches should I try first? I'm assuming you're working on a GNU/Linux system. Use Valgrind. Andrew.
