From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 4 11:24:14 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 11:24:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66BFD37B400; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.ninth-circle.org (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eB4JO6r64244; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:24:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:24:06 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: John Baldwin Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail forward.c read.c reverse.c tail Message-ID: <20001204202406.A64100@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <200012031705.eB3H5ke30393@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:58:55AM -0800 Organisation: VIA Net.Works The Netherlands Sender: asmodai@lucifer.ninth-circle.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20001204 20:00], John Baldwin (jhb@FreeBSD.ORG) wrote: >On 03-Dec-00 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: >> Log: >> Remove register keyword usage with prejudice. >> Modern compilers are smarter when it comes to allocating register >> usage. > >They also ignore the register keyword, so this is a rather pointless change, >although it does add to repo bloat and in more active code could make diffs >harder to read. :-/ So effectively the register keyword doesn't serve any purpose anymore nowadays. What would be the point in leaving it in? Also, I am actively working on the tail source code in order to fix up some of its weirdness. Just committing things, which IMHO (after consulting a bit with markm and eivind about standard issues) are not needed in today's world anymore. Shooo John, go back to your kernel work. :))) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best Network- and systemadministrator D78D D0AD 244D 1D12 C9CA 7152 035C 1138 546A B867 We're not submissive, we're not aggressive, but they think we can't defend To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message