Order of registers

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In article <5485 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <195 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
>braner at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
>>"Wastes an int"???  - nformal is on the stack anyway,
>
>Is it?  (Have a care with that answer!  Try some different compilers
>on some different architectures.)
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Does this imply that some compilers notice the "register" declaration
and pass the argument in a register?  Seems to me this only could be
done for "static" functions.

Hmmmm....

Well, I've thought about it and I can't think of any reason it woudln't
work.  That could save a lot of time, but the nastiness of
implementation makes my left hemisphere hurt.

If you have something else in mind Chris, I'd like to hear it.  Clever
code generation tricks makes for great party conversation.

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