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boterock on Nov 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language

Interesting example, I came up with clang 3.9 producing an imul with 11 though.

JoshTriplett on Nov 28, 2016 [–]

With optimization turned on?

GCC produces an lea that multiplies by 5 into %rax for the return value, then another lea that multiplies that by 2 and adds the original.

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