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Re: [RP] cleaning event handler
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Ryan Yeske |
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Re: [RP] cleaning event handler |
Date: |
20 Apr 2001 11:25:10 -0700 |
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address@hidden writes:
> At Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:07:46 -0700 (PDT) , Jonathan Walther <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
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> >
> >Ok, let me put this in different words. The way the compiler currently
> >works,
> >if you declare a variable as "register", theres a whole host of optimizations
> >that can't be done with regard to it. Whether or not it actually goes into
> >the
> >register, the compiler has to treat it specially. Unless thats changed
> >*very*
> >recently, thats still the way it is. Theres a reason you don't see it used
> >much in the Linux kernel source, where you would expect to see it all over
> >the place. GNU compiler currently just ignores register directive on x86
> >machines
> >anyway, but still treats the var with kid gloves.
>
> hmm, this does make register pretty useless. I admit if I were
> writing an xmalloc function I wouldn't use register. Perhaps rc has
> some comments since he wrote it...
Roland McGrath and Richard Stallman wrote it actually. Its from the glibc
manual.
Ryan