From: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: 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 20:15:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <426D33BA.8040604@tiscali.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504251021280.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
>
>>"register" and "auto" variables aren't relicts of the 60's, they're a
>>part of the ISO-C 99 standard, I'm following, "man".
>
>
> They _are_ relicts of the 60's. It's just that the C standard hasn't ever
> had the reason to remove them.
>
>
>>And if you think "register" variables are outdated, please remove the
>>CONFIG_REGPARM option from the Kernel source.
>
>
> That does something totally different. And doesn't use "register" at all.
>
> Pass the toke, you've been hogging the drugs for way too long.
>
> Linus
>
But this makes, like "register", direct use of processor registers (it stores int arguments in eax, ebx, etc.).
Matthias-Christian Ott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-25 18:15 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
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 [this message]
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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