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

[Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>]

Rene Rebe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
>
> > The "git" didn't try store small variables, which aren't referenced, 
> > in the processor registers. It also didn't use the size_t type. I 
> > corrected a C++ style comment too.
>
>
> Well, modern compilers take register as a non-binding hint. Your 
> register storage specification for those loop counters will not make any 
> change. You have not looked into the resulting binary?
>
> Also // is valid C99 ...
>
> Yours,
But if you use only /* */ comments and there's a // comment it looks 
ugly :).

I've disassembled the code and it for me (I'm not a professional 
assembler coder) it looks like it's stored in a register because the ebp 
offsets are smaller and the gcc (4.0) wouldn't cause an error if you 
reference them.

Matthias-Christian Ott
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