Ah interesting to know that GCC does this! I figured there would be compilers which did this but I sadly didn't have any examples. > the compiler DOES have tha

Ah interesting to know that GCC does this! I figured there would be compilers which did this but I sadly didn't have any examples. > the compiler DOES have that special logic. Indeed it being a controversial decision does not imply that no compilers would do it; if anything it implies that there should be some compilers which make that choice.