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From: karl@haddock.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Register arguments (was: Order of registers)
Message-ID: <380@haddock.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 15:56:19 EST
Article-I.D.: haddock.380
Posted: Mon Mar  2 15:56:19 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Mar-87 21:28:46 EST
References: <3950004@nucsrl.UUCP> <83@ucdavis.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ISC.COM.UUCP (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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Keywords: ANSI function prototype

In article <13646@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>	extern int foo(register int i);
>	int foo(register int i) { ... }
>[These declarations] could cause "i" to be passed in a register.

You imply that the declaration "extern int foo(int)" (without "register") is
incompatible with the definition "int foo(register int i) { ... }".  Does
X3J11 really say this?

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint