Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Register usage
Message-ID: <1989May13.223411.25998@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <259@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13 May 89 22:34:11 GMT

In article <259@mindlink.UUCP> a464@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dawson) writes:
>...Because C can't do a very good job of comprehending an
>entire substantial subroutine or program and deciding what should be in
>registers (actually, replace 'C' with HLL) I would think that a compiler could
>actually get by with slightly less...

Speak for your own compilers, please.  Some folks' compilers do an *excellent*
job of comprehending an entire subroutine, or even an entire file, of C or
other HLL and deciding what should be in registers.
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