Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262593AbVDYMcl (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:32:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262598AbVDYMcl (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:32:41 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:11483 "HELO machine.sinus.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262593AbVDYMcj (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:32:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:32:36 +0200 From: Petr Baudis To: Matthias-Christian Ott Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t Message-ID: <20050425123236.GC26665@pasky.ji.cz> References: <426CD1F1.2010101@tiscali.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426CD1F1.2010101@tiscali.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 797 Lines: 18 Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:18:09PM CEST, I got a letter where Matthias-Christian Ott told me that... > 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. Honestly, I don't think using the register keyword helps anything but to make the code less readable. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/