Subject: Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t

From: Pekka Enberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:07:20 +0300

Hi,

On 4/25/05, Petr Baudis <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Honestly, I don't think using the register keyword helps anything but to
> make the code less readable.

Indeed. The use of 'register' keyword blindly can actually make the
generated code _worse_ as it taking away one register from the
compiler's register allocator.

                        Pekka