* brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> [2009-01-16 18:38]: > Obviously, since the two functions do the exact same thing, they should > be optimized to be identical. Instead, mul is pessimized. Can you check if this happens with gcc-4.3 and trunk from SVN, and if so, file the bug upstream? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/