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From: dsill@nswc-oas.arpa (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Optimization (was Re: volatile)
Message-ID: <14505@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 23 May 88 16:39:37 GMT
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der Mouse writes:
>In article <258@ateng.UUCP>, chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>> In article <13074@brl-adm.ARPA> dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill) writes:
>>> This bears repeating.  There should be no circumstances under which
>>> the semantics of the language are changed by a flag to the compiler.
>       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Like -D?  -I?  -R?  -fsingle?

If you're able to change C's semantics with a -D or -I option,
something's wrong.  -R does indeed change semantics, and for that
reason I would try to avoid using it (I've never seen it used,
myself).  Same for -f, it's not even in my cc man page.

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