Typedefs

Chris Torek chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Thu Oct 17 12:51:36 AEST 1985


> It doesn't ignore register short definitions, it mearly does not put them
> in registers because registers can only be applied to types int and long
> on VAX.  Or whould you have sizeof (int) return different numbers depending
> on whether it's in a register or not?

Ah, Ron, how could you make such an error?  You can indeed apply
registers to `short's and `char's and even `float's and `double's;
it is merely much more difficult to get the code generation right.
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