alt Hacker NewsBut it could generate one then make the remaining three tail call to that one, or lay them out so that they are at 1byte-nop each to the next one and fallthrough the next until the last one implements the logic (This is a bit more compilcated on msvc as I believe the ABI requires a well defined prologue).
They can't be at 1byte-nop distance because pointer addresses as well as branch target addresses are expected to be aligned for performance reasons - often to 16 bytes. You need either a nop sequence or a jump/tailcall.