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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:56:18 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
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
Message-ID:  <20020320145618.B87429@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020321085806.M11660-100000@gamplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:03:54AM %2B1100
References:  <200203201755.g2KHtDX35438@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020321085806.M11660-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:03:54AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >   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.

The key word I used was _FREE_, as in not being used for temparies, and
other operations. :-)

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