There's an active discussion about optimization and debugging going on on comp.programming and comp.compilers. We are unhappy to hear of developers turning off optimization to make debugging easier. Our Code Development Systems, by contrast, have no problem informing the debugger when a variable has been temporarily optimized into a register.

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