Optimization (was Re: volatile)

[Rahul Dhesi]

In article <3938 at killer.UUCP> chasm at killer.UUCP (Charles Marslett) writes:
>I may be picky, but if flags to the compiler should not change the semantics
>of the language (in the broadest sense of the definition of semantics) -- what
>good are they. 

The sentiment behind this rhetorical question is precisely why it is
dangerous that ANSI-conformant compilers will silently ignore
unrecognized #pragmas.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi