Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:07:20 +0300 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t |
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Hi,
On 4/25/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote: > Honestly, I don't think using the register keyword helps anything but to > make the code less readable.
Indeed. The use of 'register' keyword blindly can actually make the generated code _worse_ as it taking away one register from the compiler's register allocator.
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