TG> #include 
 TG> int main(void) {
 TG>   puts("foo");
 TG>   return 0;
 TG> }

 TG>     .type         main,{at}function
 TG> main:
 TG>     pushl        %ebp
 TG>     movl        %esp, %ebp

 TG>     subl        $20, %esp

 TG>     pushl        $.LC0
 TG>     call        puts
 TG>     addl        $16, %esp


 TG>   That "addl $16, %esp" is pretty useless before
"leave", and -O2 does
 TG> eliminate it. Again, more is less

yeah.
with my DJGPP (GCC2.8.1) -O1 does that.

I'm trying to figure out why 32 bytes are reserved on the stack....
must be a linux thing. DJGPP doesn't do it.

 -=> Bye <=-

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