gcc on windows generating garbage? windows vs linux

Question

I\'m trying to find out why in windows has so much more instructions for the same program than linux. So I just used int a=0xbeef; and printf(\"test\\n\");

Answer 1

One notes that in the upper example the compiler is calling puts, while in the lower it is printf. I would suspect you have optimization on in the top example, but not on the lower example.

It also might be a debug vs non-debug build.