[comp.compilers] Does "gcc -traditional" skip some optimizations?

al@cs.unh.edu (Anthony Lapadula) (12/11/90)

We seem to have discovered that code compiled with "-traditional -O"
will (sometimes?) execute slower than code compiled with just "-O".

Are we seeing things, or are there some restrictions that the K&R semantics
impose that were removed by the standard?

-- Anthony (uunet!unhd!al, al@cs.unh.edu) Lapadula
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