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Compilers are (too) smart

6/Jun 2024 Last week I noticed some unexpected assembly code in a function calling std::unordered_map::find (yes, I know, friends don’t let friends use STL, but that is a topic for another discussion). I decided to investigate a bit and it turned out to be quite a journey. It was a Clang compiler, ARM-based platform, I will use x64 here as behavior is similar and it is easier to repro in the Compiler Explorer. What is important however, we should be using libcxx STL (-stdlib=libc++ switch). A mi...

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