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On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:

> Why did gdb tell me that the "OVERtime+=..." part happened several times
> over?

Because compiler optimizations move code around, so that the machine 
instructions generated for those two lines are interleaved.

Simply get used to this.  I usually wait until the line shjown by GDB is 
after the one I'm interested in, and then print the relevant variables.