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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Order of registers
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Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 23:34:30 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 18 23:34:30 1987
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In article <594@bobkat.UUCP> m5d@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes:
>Does this imply that some compilers notice the "register" declaration
[of a formal argument]
>and pass the argument in a register?  Seems to me this only could be
>done for "static" functions.

That is one possibility.  Another is that arguments are always
passed in registers, as on register window architectures.

>Clever code generation tricks makes for great party conversation.

Actually, that depends on the party. . . .
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