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From: tom@uw-warp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Available no. of registers
Message-ID: <652@uw-warp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 00:51:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 00:51:28 1987
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In article <170@microsoft.UUCP>, johnt@microsoft.UUCP (John Tupper) writes:
> I once used a 68000 compiler that would indeed ignore 'register' for inner
> scope variables.  I ended up moving all the variable declarations to the head
> of the procedure.
> -----
> John Tupper
> ...!decvax!microsoft!johnt

My Microsoft C Compiler Version 3.00 also disregards such declarations.
A pity, since I find that's where they're most useful.  But I'd really rather
just let an intelligent compiler handle register allocation most of the time.

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Tom May.	uw-beaver!uw-nsr!uw-warp!tom