Need some opinions

Joern Rennecke amylaar@cygnus.co.uk
Sat Mar 6 15:29:00 GMT 1999


> Drepper has a one-line <tgmath.h> test case that expands to an
> unconditional branch around 46K of code.  With optimization, the
> function is 3 instructions long.
> 
> Seems to me there's no excuse for such nonsense.

What happens when you set a breakpoint in the unreachable code?
I think we need to keep at least a nop to replaec the unreachable code with,
so that a breakpoint an be set on it.


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