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Re:How to dismantle a compiler bomb by djcj88 on Saturday March 10, 2018 @03:57AM (#16557767)
The optimizer should remove that at compile time if it's not used.
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Re:How to dismantle a compiler bomb by akx on Saturday March 10, 2018 @12:55PM (#16559414)
If it's a global variable not declared with `static`, another compilation unit could access and use it.
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