Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t
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> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
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>>"register" and "auto" variables aren't relicts of the 60's, they're a
>>part of the ISO-C 99 standard, I'm following, "man".
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> They _are_ relicts of the 60's. It's just that the C standard hasn't ever
> had the reason to remove them.
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>>And if you think "register" variables are outdated, please remove the
>>CONFIG_REGPARM option from the Kernel source.
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> That does something totally different. And doesn't use "register" at all.
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> Pass the toke, you've been hogging the drugs for way too long.
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> Linus
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But this makes, like "register", direct use of processor registers (it stores int arguments in eax, ebx, etc.).
Matthias-Christian Ott