[issue34888] Python3.8 optimizes away a "while" line

[Yury Selivanov]

Yury Selivanov <yselivanov at gmail.com> added the comment:

> I assume there is some place that notices that the while condition is a constant, and therefore doesn't need to be explicitly evaluated?

To answer your question: yes, and it's unrelated to both peephole optimizer and to the above mentioned grand refactoring of the ceval loop :)  But if we add "-X noopt" (or equivalent) we can disable those micro-optimizations too.

Let's track this in https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9693

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