Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:42:53 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail forward.c read.c reverse.c tail Message-ID: <200012041942.eB4Jgrp75009@earth.backplane.com> References: <200012031705.eB3H5ke30393@freefall.freebsd.org> <XFMail.001204105855.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20001204202406.A64100@lucifer.bart.nl>
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:>They also ignore the register keyword, so this is a rather pointless change,
:>although it does add to repo bloat and in more active code could make diffs
:>harder to read. :-/
:
:So effectively the register keyword doesn't serve any purpose anymore
:nowadays. What would be the point in leaving it in?
No point. It just junks things up. I usually remove 'register'
on any module I'm working on directly, but unless we have a mandate
to clean up the source base it wouldn't be proper to remove it
gratuitously, making porting work harder.
Besides, most of those register keywords came from the original
VAX-oriented source-base. They plain and simply do not apply, even
if the compiler actually did something with them.
-Matt
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