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From: Anonymous Coward <anonymous@coward.org>
Subject: Re: Any way to turn of constant merging in GCC 2.8.1?
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In article <ln4q37swff.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org>, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Anonymous Coward <anonymous@coward.org> writes:
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why do you need to do this?  Why do you care
> about constants being merged, as long as the program behaves
> correctly?  (I'm not implying that you don't have a legitimate
> reason, I'm just wondering what it is.)

For testing purposes, I need to be able to read constants, as well as
change them.  Merged constants are invisible to gdb.