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- Berkeley Yacc reflects its origins. The reason so many routines
- use exactly six register variables is that Berkeley Yacc was
- developed on a VAX using PCC. PCC placed at most six variables
- in registers. I went to considerable effort to find which six
- variables most belonged in registers. Changes in machines and
- compilers make that effort worthless, perhaps even harmful.
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- The code contains many instances where address calculations are
- performed in particular ways to optimize the code for the VAX.
-