Order of registers

[chris at mimsy.UUCP]

In article <594 at bobkat.UUCP> m5d at bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes:
>Does this imply that some compilers notice the "register" declaration
[of a formal argument]
>and pass the argument in a register?  Seems to me this only could be
>done for "static" functions.

That is one possibility.  Another is that arguments are always
passed in registers, as on register window architectures.

>Clever code generation tricks makes for great party conversation.

Actually, that depends on the party. . . .
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