On 10/22/2010 10:09 AM, Josef Ahmad wrote:
> I am wondering if there is a method to tell explicitly GCC (built
> with target `sparc-elf') to generate a leaf procedure for a given
> function. I had a look at the machine code generated by the
> compiler, and it seems not to automatically generate a leaf
> procedure for a function that has not calls, like:
>
> ----
> void foo(void)
> {
> return;
> }
> ----
I am surprised. I just looked in the gcc sources, and it seems to me
that this optimization will always be applied if possible as long as
we're optimizing. Maybe a SPARC maintainer can explain better.
Andrew.
