From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: stop using P_, __P in header files Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:45:16 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87bpafohcz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <4C2DB1E0.7010305@swipnet.se> <83aaqa9ml7.fsf@gnu.org> <9A690AC5-8C59-4691-88AC-EDDABCF2F704@raeburn.org> <83ocem8w6i.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278751538 31684 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2010 08:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:45:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 10 10:45:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXVgl-0001tF-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:45:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXVgk-00042z-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:45:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48939 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXVgd-00041p-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXVgc-0006kt-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:45:27 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34720) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXVgc-0006kd-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXVgZ-0001nV-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:45:23 +0200 Original-Received: from p508eeb6a.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.235.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:45:23 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508eeb6a.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:45:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508eeb6a.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bNSlfBtHJO3Puq/0yKhSKHuhKYw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126983 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 05:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Emacs is compiled not only by GCC. > > True, but "register" never was more than a hint to the compiler. > Surely most modern compilers do a better work on optimizing code on > their own than relying on naive register declarations... Naive or not, "register" is a guarantee that noone is going to take or store the address of the named variable. For compilers not building a complete parse tree before code generation, that can be useful information. -- David Kastrup