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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
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- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <BxpprG.HKu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <Bxs63J.BxA@exnet.co.uk> <BxtA6v.CE8@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:04:53 GMT
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- In article <BxtA6v.CE8@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- > But it is. The operations often use register arguments and the results
- > are wanted in registers.
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- What's a register? Most modern compilers ignore "register", or use it as a
- hint "this is a frequently used value".
-
- And how is an inline library part of the language more than a subroutine
- or an include file?
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