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djcj88 on March 10, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to dismantle a compiler bomb

The optimizer should remove that at compile time if it's not used.

akx on March 10, 2018 [–]

If it's a global variable not declared with `static`, another compilation unit could access and use it.

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