Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:15:22 +0200 | From | Matthias-Christian Ott <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > >>"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". > > > They _are_ relicts of the 60's. It's just that the C standard hasn't ever > had the reason to remove them. > > >>And if you think "register" variables are outdated, please remove the >>CONFIG_REGPARM option from the Kernel source. > > > That does something totally different. And doesn't use "register" at all. > > Pass the toke, you've been hogging the drugs for way too long. > > Linus > But this makes, like "register", direct use of processor registers (it stores int arguments in eax, ebx, etc.).
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