Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (With friends like these, who needs hallucinations) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Registers Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 90 23:20:12 GMT References: <89122504041615@masnet.uucp> Sender: news@decwrl.dec.com Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 18 In-reply-to: jonathan.forbes@canremote.uucp's message of 21 Dec 89 05:56:00 GMT >> Using Lattice C 5.04, how many register variables can I allocate within >> a function? As many as you want. Like all C compilers, it ignores the ones it doesn't implement. Unlike most others, it doesn't implement any. The compiler thinks it can do a better job of keeping stuff in the registers by using them as cache than you can by tagging specific variables as registers.