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fence
Any technique, usually exploiting knowledge about the compiler, that blocks certain optimizations. Used when explicit mechanisms are not available or are overkill. Typically a hack: I call a dummy procedure there to force a flush of the optimizer's register-coloring info can be expressed by the shorter That's a fence procedure.