http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53707 --- Comment #17 from Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> 2012-07-03 14:05:06 UTC --- When the call to find_stack_direction is inlined into itself there is no requirement on how the two instances of here are allocated, so their addresses have no defined relative order.