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From: manning@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Evan Marshall Manning)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Novice question.
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.223810.11268@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 22:38:10 GMT
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dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:

>Surely this should be 'might be stored in a high speed register', depending
>on whether the compiler wants to put it there, is able to put it there,
>whether there is an s in the day today, etc. etc. I always thought that
>register was just advice to the compiler, which its free to ignore if it
>wants to or is unable to fulfil the request.

How about #pragma REGISTER_BINDING to tell the compiler you're serious?
Any compiler writers listening?

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