This would be my expected behavior. “-noloadbang” implies NO LOADBANG :)

On May 11, 2017, at 4:00 AM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

older versions of Pd would *never* automatically emit a loadbang if the
"-noloadbang" flag was given.

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