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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
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Subject: Re: ANSI Oct 86 Public draft (register honored).
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Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 18:55:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 18:55:41 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <3734@j.cc.purdue.edu> ksb@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Kevin Braunsdorf) writes:
>I know this is a painfull and unobvious rule: but is would solve the problem
>Doug pointed out.

Please note that my specific example was just to illustrate the problem.
Solving just the example and not the general issue seems like a mistake.
Compilers often allocate registers themselves; I was just making this
explicit so people could see the mechanism happening.