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From: tim@callan.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Register functions ?
Message-ID: <235@callan.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 17:05:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 17:05:34 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Sep-84 19:13:05 EDT
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To all of us who used to use PDP-10s, it is clear that

	register foo() {

should mean that foo is a small function that should move itself
into the registers for speed! ( on the 10, the registers were
mapped into the lower 16 words of your address space.  Thus,
it was both reasonable to take the address of a register variable,
and it was reasonable to put code in the registers, because it
would run faster there.)
-- 
					Tim Smith
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