. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... level2 The amount of interprocedural optimization actually performed by gcc on the Intel machine is suspect since the -O2 optimization level produced the same object code as the -O3 optimization level for each of our test programs.
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