Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:31:26 +1100 (EST) From: "Andrew Reilly" <andrew@lake.com.au> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: andrew@lake.com.au, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, sjr@home.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of "register" in code Message-ID: <19990316053126.40722.qmail@areilly.bpc-users.org> In-Reply-To: <199903160416.UAA02703@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith said: > That's not what 'register' means, I don't have a copy of the standard. Would you mind quoting the relevant bit for us, please? > and unfortunately the use of > 'register' by code authors doesn't help as they're not privy to the > actual layout of the code at the point where register allocation is > performed. I'm not sure that I understand that clause. Are you suggesting that the use of "register" in declarations is harmful, or just that gcc doesn't feel like doing anything useful with it? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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