proposed changes to eliminate P macro

[Jonathan Leffler]

On Nov 13, 2007 6:46 AM, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] <
olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:

> > I was going to also remove all "register" delcarations, on the premise
> that modern compilers do well without the hints...
>
> My own use of "register" isn't to provide compilers with hints but
> rather to avoid unintended calls by reference; everything starts out
> life as a register variable, and the register only gets dropped if the
> address of the variable needs to be taken.


Interesting usage - not a technique I'd come across before, but that most
certainly does not make it invalid.

I won't consider removing the registers any further (not that I am able to
make direct changes to your code anyway).

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