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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: No Aliasing Compile Option
Keywords: Microsoft 6.0 C update woes
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Date: 25 May 90 15:04:50 GMT
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In article <134@qmsseq.imagen.com> pipkins@qmsseq.UUCP (Jeff Pipkins) writes:
>POINT: Not only should the option not be used to compile benchmarks, IT SHOULD
>NOT EVEN BE AN AVAILABLE OPTION FOR THE COMPILER IN THE FIRST PLACE!

UTTER BULLSHIT. Belive me, I EXPECT that optimization to be present - 
if YOU don't like fast code, simply turn it off. I know how to 
code so it will not cause problems. Just pretend you are
writing, for instance, Fortran. I have NEVER had it break any of my code.

Doug McDonald