Maybe you are thinking of “Friendly C”, which is more a pledge compiler authors could take not to be too creative in their quest for improved benchmark results.

Maybe you are thinking of “Friendly C”, which is more a pledge compiler authors could take not to be too creative in their quest for improved benchmark results. http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180 http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180 According to the article, OpenBSD changes how GCC's optimization options get enabled with global `-Ox` options, so OpenBSD has a “Friendly C” compiler of sort.