On 20/04/11 10:14, charfi asma wrote: > Ah!! that's it Andrew, thank you very much, In fact I used -Os :) when I remove > this flag I get the same gimple than yours :) but I thought that gcc does its > optimizations in the SSA and only early optimizations (Inter procedural > optimizations IPA) are done in early stages. Did this mean that gcc also perform > optimizations in gimple ?? like constant propagation ? gcc does its optimizations all over the place. There are a few, such as constant folding, that are done in the front end. Andrew.