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Subject: Re: inefficiency of GCC output code & -O problem
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Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>>> Also Watcom C/C++ has one very feature. It can generate code for
>>> register and stack based calling conventions. I.e. parameters may be
>>> passed either via stack or via registers. It also helps greatly.
>>
>>GCC has such a feature as well.  Read the on-line GCC manual about the 
>>"-mregparm" switch, for details.
>
>Certainly, gcc has such a feature. But it is (almost) unusable.
>When you call the library, the program will stop working. Recompiling
>the library won't help, because of the asm code.
>
>Other compilers circumvent the library problem by __cdecl or
>equivalent keywords in the header files.

But there is a regparm function attribute that can be used like
this (info gcc "c ext" "function at").  I haven't tried this,
because I've only just noticed it.  (I was looking for something
like this a while ago, but failed to find it.)

S.