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Re: The use of register keyword in bash source code
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: The use of register keyword in bash source code |
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Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:49:27 +0100 |
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On Feb 06 2019, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
> If it is ignored anyway, why "register" is used in many places in the
> code? Thanks.
Because compilers were dumb in the old days.
Andreas.
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