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From: Mark.Wayland
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: mov %eax, %eax in generated asm source
Date: 7 May 1996 05:57:35 -0700
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Hi all,

Can I ask what may potentially be a stupid question ? Well, I will anyway ...

Can anyone tell me the purpose of the code that is generated by

gcc -S fred.c

whereby it generates

mov %eax, %eax

???? It seems like a time-waster to me ??

Thanks in advance,

Mark Wayland
mawaylan AT ingr DOT com