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From: al@cs.unh.edu (Anthony Lapadula)
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Subject: Does "gcc -traditional" skip some optimizations?
Keywords: GCC, question
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Date: 11 Dec 90 00:36:27 GMT
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We seem to have discovered that code compiled with "-traditional -O"
will (sometimes?) execute slower than code compiled with just "-O".

Are we seeing things, or are there some restrictions that the K&R semantics
impose that were removed by the standard?

-- Anthony (uunet!unhd!al, al@cs.unh.edu) Lapadula
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