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> Instead we could just mark some files as "These C files have to be run with GCC versions X to Y", problem solved.

Is it solved? You'd still have to check the generated assembly of the entire file after every change you make, to make sure it didn't have some knock-on effect that optimised something differently, even if you kept the version of the compiler the same.

And is GCC deterministic? I don't know - do you? Did you know it has a flag `-frandom-seed`?




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