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by quotemstr
3896 days ago
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What GCC is doing subverts the purpose of writing in C, which is to get close to the machine and instruct its processor to do certain things. Optimizations are useful when they allow the compiler to better express our intent, but lately, we've seen compilers more and more often ignore our plain, stated intent, then back it up with a reference to a specification that wasn't intended to allow this subversion. |
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That's not the purpose of writing in C. It's a goal you might be able to achieve with C, but I'm not sure why that's your goal, and it's certainly not the goal of everyone who writes C. I think more people who write C do so with the coal of producing programs that run fast or with a minimal memory fingerprint.