From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 15 21:34:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC4681509E for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:31:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@lake.com.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA20874 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:31:28 +1100 (EDT) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-50-137.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.50.137]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id QAA09778 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:31:26 +1100 (EDT) Received: (qmail 40723 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Mar 1999 05:31:26 -0000 Message-ID: <19990316053126.40722.qmail@areilly.bpc-users.org> From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:31:26 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Use of "register" in code To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: andrew@lake.com.au, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, sjr@home.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199903160416.UAA02703@dingo.cdrom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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