Do not spill variables/registers on the stack

[Drasko DRASKOVIC]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
<stefan@seekline.net> wrote:
> On Mi, 2011-02-02 at 11:08 -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
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>> On 02/02/11 10:34, Philip Herron wrote:
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>> > I am not quite sure what you are asking/trying to do but the register
>> > keyword is used to tell the compiler keep this variable inside any
>> > available registers which is useful if your going to use it alot in a
>> > piece of code i would imagine it could speed up things alot.
>> GCC ignores the "register" keyword.
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> GCC does _not_ ignore the "register" keyword.

Are you sure ? I mean, are you sure what Jeff was suggesting with his
short and not elaborated answer ?
I mean, what if he wanted to say : " GCC ignores the 'register'
keyword if no-optimization (-O0) flag was passed." ?

That's why I asked for clarification, for in that case he might be right.

BR,
Drasko