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In article <id.HJ1V.BTG@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>In article <BxtA6v.CE8@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>> But it is.  The operations often use register arguments and the results
>> are wanted in registers.
>
>What's a register? Most modern compilers ignore "register", or use it as a
>hint "this is a frequently used value".
>
>And how is an inline library part of the language more than a subroutine
>or an include file?

Which brings up a question I've wondered about.  Do any compilers use
'register' to indicate that a pointer reference DOESN'T access the
value?

If so, it once again becomes usefull to use the register keyword,
as a no-alias.  Compiler could optimize knowing that the value isn't
changed by that weird intervening pointer reference.

-Bret
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