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i have no idea what that has to do with what op quoted from your article:

> There is no way to provide both optimized assembly and equivalent C code and let the compiler use the former in the general case and the latter in special cases.

this is manifestly obviously possible (as i've said).

what you're talking about is something completely different goes by many names and uses many techniques (symbex, conex, sccp, scev, blah blah blah). many of these things are implemented in eg LLVM.




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