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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Optimizing out unreferenced variables
Message-ID: <13206:May719:03:1491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 19:03:14 GMT
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In article <1475@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
> I've not tried this myself, but I would presume that if the compiler
> is ANSI compliant, you can probably declare such variables "volatile"
> and the compiler will not optimize them out.  Volatile does work in
> similar situations with the RS/6000 compiler.

It's a whole bunch more portable and useful to give the user some
options to print out those strings. End of story.

---Dan