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On 4/12/06, Jonathan Herriott <herriojr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Question then.  Why would it work when I don't use variables if I
> don't include the library?  This question is just out of curiosity.

Since you use only hard coded operands, the result is given, and gcc
optimizes such arithmetics and function calls away.


Svein Halvor