powerpc-eabi signed char arguments and optimization

[Brian Ford]

I have a sparc-sun-solaris2.6 -> powerpc-unknown-eabi cross compiler from
egcs1.1b - current CVS sources that gives me this problem.  Note that this
is a simulation of the actual problem as the embedded system I use cannot
execute this exact code.

#include <stdio.h>

void test(signed char a) {

   printf("a: %x\n", a);

}

int main(void) {
   signed char a = -60;

   test(a);

   return 0;
}

Output with -O0:
a: c4

Output with -O1+
a: 107cec4

Anybody know why this happens?  GCC 2.8.1 does not do this.

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Brian Ford
Software Engineer
Vital Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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