Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:56:36 +0200 | From | Matthias-Christian Ott <> | 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.
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