From owner-cvs-all Wed Dec 6 19: 8:19 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 19:08:16 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626E437B400; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 19:08:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p22-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.151]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id MAA18555; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 12:08:10 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A2EEF7B.6F8F2BE@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 11:01:31 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail forward.c read.c reverse.c tail References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > On 03-Dec-00 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > asmodai 2000/12/03 09:05:45 PST > > > > Modified files: > > usr.bin/tail forward.c read.c reverse.c tail.c > > 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. :-/ Not true. The register keyword is _not_ ignored and _does_ change register allocation. I know. I spent some time looking at the assembler code generated from regex, which makes extensive use of register keyword. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org "The bronze landed last, which canceled that method of impartial choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message