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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: register unions
Message-ID: <41964@sun.uucp>
Date: 15 Feb 88 18:58:56 GMT
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Keywords: registers, unions

> The official AT&T version of the K&R portable C compiler only
> supports register allocation of int's.  All other types are
> silently assigned to core.

I presume you mean "integral types", not "int"s.  The version of PCC2 that
comes with S5R3.1 on 3B2s, for instance, quite cheerfully puts "short"s,
"char"s, and "long"s into registers as well.