register struct or union (Re: Registers on the VAX 11/780?)

[Chris Torek]

> ... register structs and unions will fail with pcc-based
> compilers due to a compiler bug.  The compiler treats `s.member' as
> `(&s)->member'; i.e., in the compiler, `->' rather than `.' is the
> primitive.

(There's a good reason for it doing so, but that's beside the point
here).  This has been ``fixed'' in later compilers by ignoring the
register keyword; however, lint still gets indigestion on these.
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