On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 10:52:17AM +0100, Andrea Corallo via Gcc-help wrote:
> stefan@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> I might open a bug but my understanding is that const is generally
> not used for optimizations. Am I wrong?
extern const int x = 42;
int f(void) { return x; }
The code generated for f does not load the value for x from memory: it
returns 42 always.
Segher
