Re: [RP] register variable considered BAD

[Ryan Yeske]

Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> writes:

> Was reading the Gnu CC manual again.  It had this interesting
> tidbit:  When the address of a variable is taken, it will never
> be assigned a register.  EVER.  Even if the register keyword
> was used.  I believe this is the case with the code in ratpoison
> that does use register, and that would be why I noticed no
> code difference in the generated object files when I compiled
> with and without the register keyword.  If you want to actually
> use registers, don't give the compiler hints, use inline assembly.

So in short, the register keyword does no good and does no harm with
gcc.  What about other compilers?

Ryan