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[Bug rtl-optimization/25285] pessimization of goto * ("computed goto")



------- Comment #5 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-12-06 21:58 -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> So, no, the code is not worse, but much better.  I hope this
> workaround will continue to work in future versions.

You are wrong in general since this is a conditional indirect jump.  Since it
is conditional it means that it is going to do a jump and the locatity reasons
are that important as like in the old days when there was a little code cache. 
In fact have doing jne instead of jeq might cause the branch mispridected. 
Note if you were actually using a target which have conditional indirect jumps
this would be a bug (PPC for an example from either lr or ctr register, see PR
25287 for a bug report about that).


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