On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 14:17:30 +0200
Tauno Voipio  wrote:

> This is a common construction in compiler-generated
> machine code, if the first function calls another
> just before return.
>
> bar:    .cfi_startproc
>          ... do something
>          call foo
>          ret

 I recall optimising things like that by changing the last two lines
to:
 jmp foo

> foo:    .. do more ..
>          ret

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