Comment by rwmj

10 months ago

That was in 2012. Does it still occur on modern GCC?

There definitely have been regressions with frame pointers being enabled, although we've fixed all the ones we've found in current (2024) Fedora.

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jart  10 months ago

I think so and I vaguely seem to recall -fno-schedule-insns2 being the only thing that fixes it. To get the full power of frame pointers and hackable binary, what I use is:

    -fno-schedule-insns2
    -fno-omit-frame-pointers
    -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
    -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer
    -fpatchable-function-entry=18,16
    -fno-inline-functions-called-once

The only flag that's potentially problematic is -fno-optimize-sibling-calls since it breaks the optimal approach to writing interpreters and slows down code that's written in a more mathematical style.