When compiling the following C++ snippet with -O0, I'm getting a Floating Point Exception on my Ubuntu 21.10, g++ 11.2.0, x86-64. #include <iostream> int func(int n, int r) { return n % r; } int main() { const int n = 15, r = 0; if (r == 0 || func(n, r)) std::cout << "YES" << std::endl; else std::cout << "NO" << std::endl; if (func(n, r) || r == 0) std::cout << "YES" << std::endl; else std::cout << "NO" << std::endl; return 0; } With -O0, I'm getting a Floating Point error in the second if condition since it involves executing the "func" function where division by zero occurs. YES Floating point exception (core dumped) Now, with -O1 optimization, this is the output. YES YES The "func" call has been optimized away. I checked the assembly code output with -S and verified the same. Now, I would like to know what was the optimization (the optimization option) that led to this happening. When I tried compiling the same code with -O0 but with an additional "-fipa-pure-const", I'm getting the same output as the O1 program with two YESes. But when I try compiling with both the -O1 and -fno-ipa-pure-const, I am not getting the Floating Point Exception. If -fipa-pure-const is responsible for the optimization that removes the function call, shouldn't the function call occur with -fno-ipa-pure-const. I have tried various combinations of options related to dead code elimination and branch probabilities, but can't figure out what's happening? Thanks, Vishal