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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Short code to determine compiler's register use
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Date: 17 Jul 89 22:03:00 GMT
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In article <396@uop.uop.EDU>, greg@uop.EDU (Greg Onufer) writes:
> Some students here had to determine the number of registers (data 
> and address, we use 680x0's) the C compiler uses.

The Greenhills C compiler returns 19 data and 19 address registers.  Tee hee.

> The GNU C
> compiler should not be used, it will always return 19 (the max
> number of registers the program was written to find...), optimization
> on or off.

That should have been a red warning.

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