Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 11:55:32 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@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: <200012041955.eB4JtWJ11058@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001204105855.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 03-Dec-00 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> > asmodai 2000/12/03 09:05:45 PST
> >
> > Modified files:
> > usr.bin/tail forward.c read.c reverse.c tail.c
> > Log:
> > Remove register keyword usage with prejudice.
> > Modern compilers are smarter when it comes to allocating register
> > usage.
>
> 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. :-/
It doesn't actually ignore it. Try this:
register int foo;
printf("%p\n", &foo);
This does get in the way at times, which is why people remove it.
Cheers,
-Peter
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