RE: [avr-gcc-list] GCC code gen on xmega

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Finally, I suppose if it was simple it would have been done 
> already:

You can't always make that assumption. ;-)

> if
> there are multiple calls to "printf" and friends, the entire 
> sequence of
> setting up and tearing down the stack occurs over and over 
> again - and that
> is on top of any setup and teardown performed for the function (say, a
> buffer on the stack).   
> 
> In general, this kind of code inefficiency doesn't bother me 
> much because I
> usually factor the routines to minimize the code, and the 
> processor is so
> blazingly fast I don't care about the cycles. I just noticed 
> this while
> looking for code sequences that might cause stack corruption.
> 

Well, printf and friends are not very efficient anyway. Patches welcome.