Re: last modified date in CVS

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

> Optimization should have little to do with it --- I never build without 
> optimization, and ident always worked just fine.
> 
> Our source files go quite a bit out of their way to make sure those 
> ident strings are hard to optimize out, as a side effect of making them 
> acceptable to picky compilers.  Well, at least I don't think I've seen 
> any optimizer yet that dared strip those things.
 
 Argh, you're right - my meta-configure script uses -Dlint ...