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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/camcontrol camcontrol.c modeedit.c       
  src/sbin/dumpfs dumpfs.c src/sbin/fsck_ffs dir.c fsutil.c inode.c        
 pass1.c pass1b.c pass2.c pass4.c pass5.c preen.c setup.c      
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, David E. O'Brien wrote:

> obrien      2002/03/20 09:55:10 PST
>
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/camcontrol      camcontrol.c modeedit.c
>     sbin/dumpfs          dumpfs.c
>   ...
>   Log:
>   Remove 'register' keyword.
>   It does not help modern compilers, and some may take some hit from it.
>   (I also found several functions that listed *every* of its 10 local vars with
>    "register" -- just how many free registers do people think machines have?)

Most machines designed after 1978 (8?) other than i386's have many.
Programmers declared almost all local variables as register to encourage the
compiler to keep as many as possible in registers.

Bruce


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