Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262711AbVDYSPo (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:15:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262706AbVDYSPo (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:15:44 -0400 Received: from relay1.tiscali.de ([62.26.116.129]:4493 "EHLO webmail.tiscali.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262702AbVDYSPg (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:15:36 -0400 Message-ID: <426D33BA.8040604@tiscali.de> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:15:22 +0200 From: Matthias-Christian Ott User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050406) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: git@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t References: <426CD1F1.2010101@tiscali.de> <426D21FE.3040401@tiscali.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1000 Lines: 30 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > >>"register" and "auto" variables aren't relicts of the 60's, they're a >>part of the ISO-C 99 standard, I'm following, "man". > > > They _are_ relicts of the 60's. It's just that the C standard hasn't ever > had the reason to remove them. > > >>And if you think "register" variables are outdated, please remove the >>CONFIG_REGPARM option from the Kernel source. > > > That does something totally different. And doesn't use "register" at all. > > Pass the toke, you've been hogging the drugs for way too long. > > Linus > But this makes, like "register", direct use of processor registers (it stores int arguments in eax, ebx, etc.). Matthias-Christian Ott - 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/