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

From: Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>
Date: Apr 25, 2005, 11:39 UTC
Message-ID: <426CD703.5040009@exactcode.de>
In-Reply-To: <426CD1F1.2010101@tiscali.de>

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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