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by andrewaylett 686 days ago
Unfortunately it's not necessarily specified what counts as "an optimisation". For example, the (DSP-related) compiler I worked on back in the day had an instruction selection pass, and much of the performance of optimised code came from it being a very good instruction selector. "Turning off optimisations" meant not running compiler passes that weren't required in order to generate code, we didn't have a second sub-optimal instruction selector.

And undefined behaviour is still undefined behaviour without all the optimisation passes turned on.