Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

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




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990316053126.40722.qmail>