Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!bywater!arnor!arnor!marc From: marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Optimising C compiler question Message-ID: Date: 9 Apr 91 17:04:53 GMT References: <1991Apr8.193155.3911@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Sender: news@watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster) Distribution: comp Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York Lines: 8 In-Reply-To: umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu's message of 8 Apr 91 23:31:55 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: marc The IBM Risc System 6000 ignores the register declartion except for checking that no address is taken. All local variables which are not aliased are register allocated and spilled if necessary. Aliased variables must be forced home as needed. -- Marc Auslander