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Re: detailed comparison of generated code size for GCC and other compilers

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 06:17:45PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I personally feel that test cases that get optimized away are not 
> very interesting.

Actually, I think they're very interesting - especially if they are
valid code, and one compiler optimizes them away, but the other
doesn't.  You may have heard of a commercial testsuite built on this
principle :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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