Frank Peters <frank.peters@...> skribis:
> However, I really cannot consider this to be normal behavior.  Compiler
> optimization should not degrade the function of a program.

I wouldn't think of optimizers that way; it is more important that a
person can write code that happens to work with the optimizer than
that the optimizer can analyze and handle any code it is given,
especially in a tricky, bit-twiddling language such as C.