Hoping to change the maxskip setting from 10 to 12 (-march=haswell), I set -falign-loops=12 and found that the max_skip value is removed from .s output. I see that max_skip is initialized in i386.c (for the case where -falign-loops is not set) but thought there might be a compile-time option. I rebuilt gcc after changing the align_loop_max_skip field to 12 in config/i386/i386.c but it had no effect. -- Tim Prince