Re: [RP] cleaning event handler

[sabetts]

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...