Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!texbell!merch!cpe!tif
From: tif@cpe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: tc  wns  newer_head
Message-ID: <6600003@cpe>
Date: 11 Jan 89 00:00:00 GMT
References: <6740@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
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Nf-From: cpe.UUCP!tif    Jan 10 18:00:00 1989


Written  8:26 am  Jan 10, 1989 by killer.UUCP!dono in cpe:comp.os.minix
/* ---------- "tc  wns  newer_head" ---------- */
>register FILE *in = stdin;          /* default is standard input    */
>register int header = FALSE;        /* TRUE if multiple files       */
>register char *cp;                  /* general purpose pointer      */
>register long nlines = 10;          /* number of lines to display   */
>register long skip = 0;             /* number of lines to skip      */
>register char *pgm;                 /* program name                 */
>register FILE *in;          /* input stream                         */
>register char *inname;      /* input file name                      */
>register long skip;         /* number of lines to skip              */
>register long nlines;       /* number of lines to display           */
>register char *c;           /* convenient local pointer         */
>register long lineno = 0;   /* line number in file              */
>register char  *namptr,

You gotta lotta guts expecting the minix compiler to handle registers
right.  :-)  I don't mean to be disrespectful to the minix compiler but
I have had so many compilers screw up with registers declared.  Not to
mention that on an Intel processor register declarations usually cause
worse code than without.

			Paul Chamberlain
			Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
			{killer | texbell}!cpe!tif