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From: m5d@bobkat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Order of registers
Message-ID: <594@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 13:23:09 EST
Article-I.D.: bobkat.594
Posted: Wed Feb 18 13:23:09 1987
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Reply-To: m5d@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally (dlsh))
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In article <5485@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <195@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
>braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
>>"Wastes an int"???  - nformal is on the stack anyway,
>
>Is it?  (Have a care with that answer!  Try some different compilers
>on some different architectures.)
>	[ ... ]
>-- 
>In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690)
>UUCP:	seismo!mimsy!chris	ARPA/CSNet:	chris@mimsy.umd.edu

Does this imply that some compilers notice the "register" declaration
and pass the argument in a register?  Seems to me this only could be
done for "static" functions.

Hmmmm....

Well, I've thought about it and I can't think of any reason it woudln't
work.  That could save a lot of time, but the nastiness of
implementation makes my left hemisphere hurt.

If you have something else in mind Chris, I'd like to hear it.  Clever
code generation tricks makes for great party conversation.

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