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		adamnemecek on July 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 54-line if condition in gcc's reload.c Yes, yes it would have, there is literally no question about that. It also appears that some of the parts of the conditions are repeated, so those could have been refactored.

laichzeit0 on July 2, 2014 [–]

I'm sure a good optimizing compiler like GCC would optimize out repeated expressions in conditions ;) (perhaps not if they're declared volatile(?))

smcl on July 2, 2014 | [–]

Definitely not if they're declared volatile

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