(OK, I said I was done, but Michael Schmitt's excellent post deserves attention)
Michael wrote, in part: >I think what we're seeing is the evolution of compilers on z/OS. ... >In the example case, Phil pointed out that the C code is really >two operations: define a variable, and then move (initialize) a >value to it. FTR, that was Robin, not me. >My guess is that at opt(0) the compiler is just outputting the >generated instructions for the pseudo-ops directly, 1 for 1. That's intriguing and could be the explanation!
