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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Registers used by compiler
Message-ID: <10569@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Jul 89 23:08:44 GMT
References: <396@uop.uop.EDU> <225800197@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <579@targon.UUCP> <116229@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <2064@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2064@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>Modern compilers stuff variables into registers regardless of the use of
>the 'register' keyword. That keyword is an anachronism, only useful with
>old compilers.

At one of the X3J11 meetings, "register" was described as serving the
compiler technology of the 1970s, and "noalias" was described as serving
the compiler technology of the 1980s.  I think that's about right.