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From: oleg@quad1.quad.com (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Problems with Centipede
Message-ID: <983@quad1.quad.com>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 18:43:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: quad1.983
Posted: Thu Jul 23 18:43:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 21:40:12 EDT
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Reply-To: oleg@quad1.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev)
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Change of
>] <     register char ch;
to 
>]>     register char *ch;

>THIS PATCH IS NOT GOOD PROGRAMMING!  [... AND THE GOOD REASONS WHY ]
>char (note the absence of a malloc()).  The better fix is to drop
>the 'register' from 'register char ch' and put up with the (slight)
>(noticable??) degredation in performance.

How about:
    char xxx;
    register char *ch = &xxx;

then you can keep register access speed improvements (if any).
-- 
Oleg Kiselev  --  oleg@quad1.quad.com -- {...!psivax|seismo!gould}!quad1!oleg

DISCLAIMER: All grammatical and spelling errors are inserted deliberately to
test the software I am developing.  In fact, that is the only reason I am 
posting. Yeah, that's the ticket! All my postings are just test data! Yeah!!