On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mi, 2011-02-02 at 11:08 -0700, Jeff Law wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/02/11 10:34, Philip Herron wrote: >> >> > >> > I am not quite sure what you are asking/trying to do but the register >> > keyword is used to tell the compiler keep this variable inside any >> > available registers which is useful if your going to use it alot in a >> > piece of code i would imagine it could speed up things alot. >> GCC ignores the "register" keyword. > > GCC does _not_ ignore the "register" keyword. Are you sure ? I mean, are you sure what Jeff was suggesting with his short and not elaborated answer ? I mean, what if he wanted to say : " GCC ignores the 'register' keyword if no-optimization (-O0) flag was passed." ? That's why I asked for clarification, for in that case he might be right. BR, Drasko
