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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:42:57 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com>
To:        marko@cs.uni-frankfurt.de
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Global register variables in gcc and stdio.h?!?
Message-ID:  <199810071842.LAA24550@freebie.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810071330.PAA22126@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> from Marko Schuetz at "Oct 7, 98 03:30:38 pm"

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> An application I want to compile runs much faster if it can use global
> register variables.
[ snip ]
> Please comment. 

One comment I'd have is that GCC does a pretty wonderful job of allocating
registers on its own.  Perhaps your experience is based on some other
compiler?

My personal opinion after staring at a lot of compiler-generated assembler
code.

	-crl
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