A very "strange" bug in gcc 2.96

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 20000521123156E.mitchell@codesourcery.com >you write:
  > >>>>> "H" == H J Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
  > 
  >     H> There is the ia32 asm ouput from gcc 2.96 with -O2. Please
  >     H> notice that
  > 
  >     H> 	jmp foo
  > 
  >     H> is generated, instead of
  > 
  >     H>         call foo leave ret
  > 
  > This is presumably due to the new sibling call optimization.
  > 
  > Richard, Jeff: I would very much appreciate your comments on this
  > issue.
There was a lot of discussion on this over the weekend.  Anyone care to 
post an exec summary?

My gut feeling is the assembler should be leaving this as a 32bit jump so
that it can be twiddled as necessary at link time.

jeff