Hello All,
What is the role of the register keyword [=storage class specifier]
in C ( C++) in the current GCC compiler?
IIRC, (from my human rusty memory, I don't have the documents on hand)
the current standard only requires that variable declared with the
register class should not have their
On 06/05/2010, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
IIRC, (from my human rusty memory, I don't have the documents on hand)
the current standard only requires that variable declared with the
register class should not have their adress taken thru the unary
operator, and might have some imprecise
On 05/06/2010 08:35 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
On 06/05/2010, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
[ register variable ]
In C++ it's only a hint, which the compiler is free to ignore. Its use
will be deprecated in C++1x.
Indeed, g++ won't even complain about taking its address (much to my
Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net writes:
Long time ago (probably in the GCC 2.95 3.2 time frame) I would
imagine that the register keyword indeed affected register
allocation, in the sense that variables declared with register where
indeed preferentially put in a machine
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 01:22:27PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net writes:
Long time ago (probably in the GCC 2.95 3.2 time frame) I would
imagine that the register keyword indeed affected register
allocation, in the sense that variables
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 01:22:27PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net writes:
Long time ago (probably in the GCC 2.95 3.2 time frame) I would
imagine that the register keyword indeed affected register
allocation, in the sense that variables
