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Subject: Re: Question about GCC and stack
From: James Colannino <james () colannino ! org>
Date: 2005-09-12 23:15:52
Message-ID: 43260C28.6020406 () colannino ! org
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Brian Raiter wrote:
>>The subl instruction is pointless, I dont know why it's inserted. It
>>could be just generic stub code that gcc always inserts for
>>allocating stack variables, but as in this case you dont use any, it
>>allocates $0 bytes...I'm sure someone will correct me if there's a
>>good reason for it :)
>>
>>
>
>I expect that the instructions obtained by the original poster were
>created by gcc without optimization. Run gcc with -O2 or so would
>probably yield a simpler set of instructions.
>
>
It was without -O2, but when I used -O2, the code was pretty much the
same. The only difference was that instead of moving the value 0 into
eax, xor eax, eax was used to mask out all the bits (equalling 0, and
I'm assuming that's probably slightly more efficient than moving a value
into a register.) Also, instead of the leave instruction, the ebp and
esp were manipulated manually, I guess because maybe the leave
instruction, like the enter instruction, is slower?
James
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