Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> The "register" keyword is and was always from start *at most* a hint to
> the C compiler to use a register for that variable (similar to "inline"
> BTW).
> So every C compiler is allowed to simply ignore the "register" for any
> reason - be it "not implemented" or "the compiler knows better".
> Trivial reason: Think of a function with 100 register variables.
>
The only useful semantic for "register" these days is that its illegal
to take the address of one. So it might be useful if you want to make
sure you have no aliases of a particular variable.
J
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