Re: 2.2.10-ac7 compile errors on Alpha

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Sat, 3 Jul 1999 21:41:04 -0700


On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 05:11:09PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Isn't declaring something a 'register char' a really bad idea these
> days? Something about taking away a register for the compiler to
> optimize with.

No modern compiler does anything with `register'. Except
perhaps warn if you take it's address.

r~

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