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On 30.01.13 21:02, Simon Wright wrote:
> Of course, there may be some GCC option to merge the strings - there's
> probably an option to make toast, come to that.

Yes, GCC burns enough CPU cycles for making toast when a
mini C99 program uses larger variable length arrays of C99.
I'm building GCC from latests sources hoping I won't need to
report the ICEs I'm seeing on this hard working system.