Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t

[Rene Rebe]

Hi,

Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> The "git" didn't try store small variables, which aren't referenced, in 
> the processor registers. It also didn't use the size_t type. I corrected 
> a C++ style comment too.

Well, modern compilers take register as a non-binding hint. Your 
register storage specification for those loop counters will not make any 
change. You have not looked into the resulting binary?

Also // is valid C99 ...

Yours,

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