Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.247.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 08:09:51 -0500 Message-ID: <4DCFD0A3.36D7@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 09:09:55 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Register storage type References: <_ZednX81cqTb9VDQnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@bestweb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.216.3 X-Trace: sv3-Uyst755bTU4fsSLVeaf7quQxTrRfUXVULuX0uUpvKDHnbEi70ZWslB6iVqaV0G5dddTbsoEBHFQ8Xqd!1lTae5OdEC3Gjxvp4uapxvBQaI+AKSAL78qWGI4lxWQ0gh9QDbCFY+ccGBV+pYc2q/fRIOSfNvEB!9KdbE5Sk X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1794 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:4026 Angel wrote: > Why are you so focussed on these micro-optimizations anyway? Let the > compiler figure it out, modern compilers are smart enough to do it on > their own for all but a few very limited cases. This was aniticipated in the 1978 version of K&R. Appendix A, 8.1 "Samller, faster programs can be expected if register declarations are used appropriately, but future improvements in code generation may render them unnecessary." -- pete