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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Typedefs
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 22:51:36 EDT
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> It doesn't ignore register short definitions, it mearly does not put them
> in registers because registers can only be applied to types int and long
> on VAX.  Or whould you have sizeof (int) return different numbers depending
> on whether it's in a register or not?

Ah, Ron, how could you make such an error?  You can indeed apply
registers to `short's and `char's and even `float's and `double's;
it is merely much more difficult to get the code generation right.
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