[fpc-devel] Const optimization is a serious bug

[Martin]

On 10/07/2011 11:33, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>
> To be honest, I'm a bit surprised by the progression of this discussion. I
> sympathise a bit with the proponents of a simple "disable this optimization"
> switch, but to me the rest all sounds like people desperately defending
> their turf, and losing sight of the big picture.
I agree the discussion, if the feature should be as it is, went off, far 
out off control. And I myself take a considerable share of the blame in 
making it do so.....

The discussion was meant to be about, what can or should be done, in 
addition to the feature. Accepting the feature itself as it is.
I think the finegrained detection option that Martin proposes has a bad

> work vs occuarance tradeoff, but a global killswitch for this might be
> enough.
I do agree. At least from the point of the developer(s) that have to 
implement it. And I do accept that.

Never the mind, that does not mean that not from the users point of 
view, it would be nice to have. not that it cannot be proposed.