mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (der Mouse) writes:

>int x;
>void foo(void)
>{
>	int y;

>	x = ...;
>	somefunction();
>	y = x;
>}

>Optimizing this by holding the value stored into x in a register across
>the call to somefunction is invalid here

What about 'static int x;' and somefunction() being external to this
compilation unit?

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