vartest.c - major pain in the build process

[Krzysztof Foltman]

Is there any reason for gcc 3.3.1 to spend several minutes on compiling 
dlls/oleaut32/tests/vartest.c ?

I guess it can be explained by optimization stage going nuts on 
compiling long functions with many branches (contained in the macros), 
but there must be a way to speed this up.

It's barely tolerable now, and upgrading gcc is not an option for everyone.
Krzysztof