Re: Register keyword removal

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:25 PM -0400 8/7/03, Diane Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:07:29PM +0000, Sander Vesik wrote:
> >  Robert Garrett <rg70@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > > Register keyword removal, is now complete. I will deal with
>  > > the remaining RCng issues tommorrow.
>  >
>  > why do that? its basicly harmless and just creates unneeded
>  > diff churn?
>
>   register key word can actually force a compiler to generate
> worse code on a modern decent compiler. Its archaic practice.

It should probably be noted that the FreeBSD project is also
"inclined" to remove 'register' keywords.  We just haven't made
it a specific project to remove them all in one fell swoop like
dfly just did.  So, while this drive to remove all 'register'
keywords means some extra differences between dfly and freebsd
at the moment, there is every reason to believe FreeBSD will
also be deleting all of them.  It's just that it is happening
at a much slower pace in FreeBSD.

So, this isn't "unneeded diff churn", but it is something that
is much easier to do right now in dragonfly (before dfly has
hundreds of developer working on it).  Might as well get this
done while it's very easy to do.

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