Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?

[...]  I have one
source file that takes almost 7 minutes to compile
when using -O3 on a very-high-end xeon box.  Mostly
buried in the overall compile time when using parallel
make.
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The code could be restructured to compile in a few seconds;
but that would require substantial changes to the rest
of the codebase.   Compiling with -O0 for development
testing reduces the compile time to a few seconds.