Registers used by compiler

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2064 at dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright at dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>Modern compilers stuff variables into registers regardless of the use of
>the 'register' keyword. That keyword is an anachronism, only useful with
>old compilers.

At one of the X3J11 meetings, "register" was described as serving the
compiler technology of the 1970s, and "noalias" was described as serving
the compiler technology of the 1980s.  I think that's about right.