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Re: [PATCH] Fix PTA with lots of SFTs


> I disagree.  I think the ability to disable assertions is useful; even
> the ones that are guarded with release-checking are sometimes relatively
> expensive.  There are times when people are willing to trade possible
> silent errors for speed; after all, GCC does sometimes silently
> misbehave even with all assertions turned on. :-)

Those people must be mad. :-)  Given the time and efforts needed to track down 
a miscompilation, even for a seasoned compiler hacker, I don't think they 
really know what they are trading for a few percents of speed.

-- 
Eric Botcazou


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