[tz] tzcode2012h and tzdata2012h available
Petr Machata
pmachata at redhat.com
Sat Oct 27 16:04:53 UTC 2012
christos at zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
> On Oct 26, 11:22pm, eggert at cs.ucla.edu (Paul Eggert) wrote:
> -- Subject: [tz] tzcode2012h and tzdata2012h available
>
> | More C modernization, except that at Arthur David Olson's suggestion
> | the instances of 'register' were kept.
>
> Wonderful. Will you accept a patch then to add all the missing
> "register" adornments (because that is what they are) for the rest
> of the variables whose address is not taken? And please, point out
> to me another opensource package that still uses register, because
> I am stressed to find one.
Oh, there are plenty (gmake, binutils, libffi, zlib, glibc, gcc), even
ignoring the gccism which allows denoting the exact register to use:
long int r0 __asm__ ("r0"). Not that it changes anything. These are
all relatively old codebases, it used to mean something back then.
Thanks,
PM
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