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From: Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>
To: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:39:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <426CD703.5040009@exactcode.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <426CD1F1.2010101@tiscali.de>

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,

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-25 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-25 11:18 [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 11:39 ` Rene Rebe [this message]
2005-04-25 12:56   ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 13:01     ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 18:06   ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-25 12:32 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-25 13:07   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-04-25 14:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-25 16:59   ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 17:12     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-04-25 17:13       ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-04-25 17:18         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-04-25 18:23           ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 17:22     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-04-25 17:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-25 18:15       ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-04-25 18:50         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-25 20:50           ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-25 18:55         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-04-25 19:43           ` the REGISTER thread Brian O'Mahoney
2005-04-25 17:38     ` [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t Dmitry Torokhov
2005-04-25 17:51 ` Horst von Brand
     [not found] <3X9X6-5JP-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-25 17:36 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
     [not found] ` <3Xdel-8u2-43@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <3XfpD-21C-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-26 18:18     ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>

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