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From: wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Informix 4gl and C optimizer
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.140706.25200@nncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 90 15:49:48 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.035146.18882@seachg.uucp>
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In article <1990Dec20.140514.6995@seachg.uucp> jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop) writes:
> Unfortunately this kind of code can't really be optimized anyway, so all
> the work is for nothing!

It is, however, easy to avoid this behavior and still get the benefits of
the optimizer.  Use the following command line:

	cc -O2 -W2,-N ....

The -N passed to optim turns off constant analysis.

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	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM