[AstralStorm]

The compiler will detect any attempt at taking the address of the variable (including fancy things like most inline assembly) and skip the optimization, marking it as requiring a memory location.

However, it can still cheat by rearranging the memory write or even letting linker initialize the address.

[caf]

We are in violent agreement.

An explicitly const-qualified object instead can be replaced with its value even if its address has escaped.