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Maybe the dead code was preventing the C compiler from carrying out a buggy "optimisation"?
by leoc 13y ago
Maybe the dead code was preventing the C compiler from carrying out a buggy "optimisation"?
- protomyth 13y agoCould have been. Although a comment or a printf kept the code working, and removing that line broke the line above it. Next compiler release fixed it. It was just odd and a lesson in compilers are not perfect.