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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 'Register' in C
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 07:43:05 -0800
Organization: Alcyone Systems
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John M. Aldrich wrote:

> Note that registers are four bytes only; it's ridiculous to try to put
> an entire array into one.

The variable here being "registerized" was the pointer, and not the
array.

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