diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 205951bc..b7b3b2e4 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Jussi Knuuttila <jussi.knuuttila@gmail.com>
 Kaito Udagawa <umireon@gmail.com>
 Kishan Kumar <kumar.kishan@outlook.com>
 Lei Xu <eddyxu@gmail.com>
+Marcel Jacobse <mjacobse@uni-bremen.de>
 Matt Clarkson <mattyclarkson@gmail.com>
 Maxim Vafin <maxvafin@gmail.com>
 MongoDB Inc.
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 10243a56..37b000a1 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ Kai Wolf <kai.wolf@gmail.com>
 Kaito Udagawa <umireon@gmail.com>
 Kishan Kumar <kumar.kishan@outlook.com>
 Lei Xu <eddyxu@gmail.com>
+Marcel Jacobse <mjacobse@uni-bremen.de>
 Matt Clarkson <mattyclarkson@gmail.com>
 Maxim Vafin <maxvafin@gmail.com>
 Nick Hutchinson <nshutchinson@gmail.com>
diff --git a/docs/user_guide.md b/docs/user_guide.md
index fbd29b9a..7fffb603 100644
--- a/docs/user_guide.md
+++ b/docs/user_guide.md
@@ -346,7 +346,8 @@ the performance of `std::vector` initialization for uniformly increasing sizes.
 static void BM_DenseRange(benchmark::State& state) {
   for(auto _ : state) {
     std::vector<int> v(state.range(0), state.range(0));
-    benchmark::DoNotOptimize(v.data());
+    auto data = v.data();
+    benchmark::DoNotOptimize(data);
     benchmark::ClobberMemory();
   }
 }
@@ -492,7 +493,8 @@ static void BM_StringCompare(benchmark::State& state) {
   std::string s1(state.range(0), '-');
   std::string s2(state.range(0), '-');
   for (auto _ : state) {
-    benchmark::DoNotOptimize(s1.compare(s2));
+    auto comparison_result = s1.compare(s2);
+    benchmark::DoNotOptimize(comparison_result);
   }
   state.SetComplexityN(state.range(0));
 }
@@ -1005,7 +1007,8 @@ static void BM_vector_push_back(benchmark::State& state) {
   for (auto _ : state) {
     std::vector<int> v;
     v.reserve(1);
-    benchmark::DoNotOptimize(v.data()); // Allow v.data() to be clobbered.
+    auto data = v.data();           // Allow v.data() to be clobbered. Pass as non-const
+    benchmark::DoNotOptimize(data); // lvalue to avoid undesired compiler optimizations
     v.push_back(42);
     benchmark::ClobberMemory(); // Force 42 to be written to memory.
   }