From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: stop using P_, __P in header files Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 23:42:54 -0400 Message-ID: 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 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278301394 458 80.91.229.12 (5 Jul 2010 03:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 03:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dann@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 05 05:43:12 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 1OVcaN-0006x7-Md for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:43:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OVcaM-0004qZ-W9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58110 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OVcaG-0004qT-P7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVcaF-00077r-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from splat.raeburn.org ([69.25.196.39]:45340 helo=raeburn.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVca7-00076w-Ig; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from squish.raeburn.org (squish.raeburn.org [10.0.0.172]) by raeburn.org (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o653gs27025343; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 23:42:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83ocem8w6i.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:126780 Archived-At: On Jul 4, 2010, at 23:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Ken Raeburn >> Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 17:24:49 -0400 >> Cc: Emacs Developers >>=20 >> We could also probably ditch the "register" declarations that date = back to pre-GCC days; do they do *any* good now? >=20 > Emacs is compiled not only by GCC. Of course not, although I suspect most UNIX installations use it. By = "pre-GCC" I meant, what, late '80s or early '90s, before GCC came into = widespread use? When commonly used optimizer technology wasn't nearly = as good as it is now. Do the non-GCC compilers (those that have halfway = decent optimizers -- those that don't should only be used for = bootstrapping GCC or other modern compilers) still need "register" these = days to indicate what variables belong in registers, or do the = optimizers do a reasonable job of working it out for themselves? Ken=