cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES) (10/16/85)
/* Ron Natalie is quibbling with me: > > Yes it will work. But how well? Some systems (notably BSD) ignore > > register short definitions for example. This style allows (& requires > > in certain cases) the porter to choose his tradeoffs globally. > > It doesn't ignore register short definitions, it mearly does not put them > in registers because registers can only be applied to types int and long > on VAX. Or whould you have sizeof (int) return different numbers depending > on whether it's in a register or not? Of course it doesn't ignore them *completely*, only the *register* part! As for sizeof, I don't know what you're talking about. I never said that. I suppose there are real problems with register shorts. What are they? It seems that the VAX registers can be treated like the 68000 D-regs. The 68000 (Unisys V7-like) didn't seem to to mind reg shorts or chars. jim cottrell@nbs */ ------