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Fixes is only for bug fixes.  These don't fix any bugs.

How do you distinguish these in questionable source code
from other error categories or software weaknesses?

A style change is one that doesn't change the effect of the execution.

This can occasionally be fine, can't it?

 These don't actually even change the assembly,

How did you check it?

I would expect that there are useful run time effects to consider
for three proposed update steps (in this patch series).

so there's programmatic proof they're not fixing anything.

I find that the software refactoring “Improve a size determination in nine functions”
should fit to this observation (while the source code can become a bit better).

Bug means potentially user visible fault.

Thanks for your constructive feedback.

Regards,
Markus