<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 13, 2007 6:46 AM, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] <<a href="mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov" target="_blank">olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I was going to also remove all "register" delcarations, on the premise<br>that modern compilers do well without the hints...<br><br>My own use of "register" isn't to provide compilers with hints but
<br>rather to avoid unintended calls by reference; everything starts out<br>life as a register variable, and the register only gets dropped if the<br>address of the variable needs to be taken.</blockquote><div><br>Interesting usage - not a technique I'd come across before, but that most certainly does not make it invalid.
<br></div></div><br>I won't consider removing the registers any further (not that I am able to make direct changes to your code anyway).<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jonathan Leffler <<a href="mailto:jonathan.leffler@gmail.com" target="_blank">
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