Re: stop using P_, __P in header files

[David Kastrup]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 05:05, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Emacs is compiled not only by GCC.
>
> True, but "register" never was more than a hint to the compiler.
> Surely most modern compilers do a better work on optimizing code on
> their own than relying on naive register declarations...

Naive or not, "register" is a guarantee that noone is going to take or
store the address of the named variable.  For compilers not building a
complete parse tree before code generation, that can be useful
information.

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David Kastrup