Short code to determine compiler's

[Michael S. Ball]

In article <1038 at cernvax.UUCP> hjm at cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews) writes:
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>I have a question for the authors of smart C compilers: is the
>register declaration useful at all for such compilers?

I can only speak for the three compilers with which I have been intimate,
but in them the "register" declaration had no effect except to prohibit
the application of "&".  In one of them you could force the compiler
to take your advice and pay attention to the "register" declaration.  It
usually only slowed the code a little bit.

Personally, I think compilers which require register declarations should
be referred to as "dumb C compilers", rather than referring to modern
compilers as "smart C compilers".

Michael S. Ball
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