As in, Torvalds being mean about the compiler, or something else? That seems pre...

Sharlin · on July 26, 2014

Also note that his tone in the actual gcc bug report is professional and matter-of-factly: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61904

forgottenpass · on July 26, 2014

And in the GCC bugzilla Richard Biener of gcc is willing to say the following about the behavior. This all feels like much ado about nothing.

    so that spill is right before the asm and we immediately re-load it into
    a register required by an asm constraint (stupid register allocator).