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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:56:36 +0200
From: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
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To: Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, git@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t
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Rene Rebe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Well, modern compilers take register as a non-binding hint. Your 
> register storage specification for those loop counters will not make any 
> change. You have not looked into the resulting binary?
> 
> Also // is valid C99 ...
> 
> Yours,
> 
But if you use only /* */ comments and there's a // comment it looks 
ugly :).

I've disassembled the code and it for me (I'm not a professional 
assembler coder) it looks like it's stored in a register because the ebp 
offsets are smaller and the gcc (4.0) wouldn't cause an error if you 
reference them.

Matthias-Christian Ott
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