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The word "all" in "all such translator output" seems to rule out removing any code, such as the zero memset.

"Translator output" suggests that translation is complete and we just have its output to link together. Optimization is "semantic analysis"; you cannot optimize without reasoning about meaning, and optimization also implies that translation is still going on: the output of earlier translation is still being tweaked, with regard to the meaning of the original source.



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