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Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: "Kean Johnston" <jkj at sco dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:58:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria
- References: <000201c2dcc2$bf7139f0$03419384@shrike>
"Kean Johnston" <jkj at sco dot com> writes:
|> Having register / inline behave the way the programmer expects
|> it to gives the programmer the power of choice. There are
|> legitimate cases where the programmer *NEEDS* a variable in
|> a certain register
If you need a certain register, use __asm__("reg"). Everything else is
calling for trouble.
Andreas.
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