Re: 'C' Operators precedence

David Todd (dtodd@bbn.com)
Wed, 20 May 1998 14:30:07 -0400

>
> And this _without_ optimisation. gcc is right to do this; if a function
> clobbers registers, then let it do so when the variables don't contain
> anything interersting anyway.

Umm, the reason why there is a penalty for calling a function (and why c++ has
inline functions to avoid the penalty) is because calling a function pushes
all the registers onto the stack, and restores them afterward.

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