Re: Strange Behavior With Solaris (Sparc) C Compiler

Daniel Marques wrote:


> Hello. I have a question regarding some behavior I'm
> seeing with the C compiler on Solaris 9 and was hoping someone could
> shed some insight.
>
>
> However, when I compile with the command "cc -c -g -xO0 test.c", nm now
> reports the size of "mother" as 0.


> // test.c
>
> int foo(int i)
> {
>
> static int mother = 98;
> static int father;
>
> if(i & 123)
> mother += 8;
> if(i % 4)
> father += 10 * i;
>
> return mother + father;
> }


The above code is equivalent to
int foo(int i)
{
      static int res = 98;


        if( (i&123) ) {
            if( i%4) {
                result += 10*i + 8;
            }
            else {
                result += 8;
            }
        }
        return;
    }


[Note that i%4!=0 == (i&3) !=0 => i&123 != 0, so don't have to deal with
separate if( !(i&123) && (i%4) ) case]


It could be the compiler is optimizing away one of the static variables.

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