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		protomyth on April 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: -2000 Lines of Code (2004) C compiler from a unix vendor in the late 90's.

leoc on April 3, 2014 [–]

Maybe the dead code was preventing the C compiler from carrying out a buggy "optimisation"?

protomyth on April 3, 2014 | [–]

Could have been. Although a comment or a printf kept the code working, and removing that line broke the line above it. Next compiler release fixed it. It was just odd and a lesson in compilers are not perfect.

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