> using a compiler that's going to do all sorts of modifications to what you've created at the machine code level You do know that the compiler isn't allowed t

> using a compiler that's going to do all sorts of modifications to what you've created at the machine code level You do know that the compiler isn't allowed to change the behaviour of your code, right? (If it did, it would be a bug in the compiler, and C compilers are pretty damn mature.)