From: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: 'Register' in C
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 17:29:09 -0500
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Ian Chapman wrote:
>         so after all this c stuff you have put a pointer into a HW 
> register !!! any idea which one?  If you are to use a pointer 
> effectively you must know the m/c details and use a pointer reg not an 
> index or accumulator or link or whatever they have from z80 to cray 2 
> processor.  Regards
> Ian.

it seems like you are under the impression that prefixing a vaiable with
the register keyword is _definitely_ going to result in that variable
being put in a register. this presumption is incorrect. the register
keyword is merely a suggestion to the compiler. it is actually free to
ignore that, and has to ignore it under certain situations (for example,
if the address of the variable is taken.)

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