Baffling USE in x86_64.ad
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Fri Jan 22 09:43:38 UTC 2016
On 21/01/16 18:55, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> I agree that is not needed. We never cleaned up this before. I
> looked on history and it from 2000 when C2 was still in development.
Thanks for looking at that. One of the most difficult problems a
programmer ever encounters is the mysterious line of code: "I don't
know what this is for, but I'm scared to remove it in case it's being
used for some odd side-effect. I think I'll leave it in."
Andrew.
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