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The dangerous part is that now the value of the computation can change slightly if it's no longer constant. So e.g. if it involves a named constant, and that constant then becomes a variable for some reason (e.g. because it now needs to be computed at runtime, because it varies from platform to platform), you can end up with broken code with no warning.



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