Register keyword removal

Hiten Pandya hmp at nxad.com
Tue Aug 12 03:30:08 PDT 2003


On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:27:55AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 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.

	I had patches for removing *all* register keywords across the
	FreeBSD base, sys; but they were rejected because everyone
	thought of it as diff churn... oh well...

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