The problem with GNU is that whenever faced with a trade-off between simplicity and comprehensiveness, they chose the latter; in doing so, they made their softw

The problem with GNU is that whenever faced with a trade-off between simplicity and comprehensiveness, they chose the latter; in doing so, they made their software harder to understand and modify, and thus for their users to exercise the freedoms they were promised. mescc has one job, and one job only - why does it even have a flag for picking the optimization level? Optimize for output readability, nothing else.