Re: cpluspluscheck complains about use of register

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Subject: Re: cpluspluscheck complains about use of register
Date: 2022-09-24 19:59:30
Message-ID: CAH2-Wzn99KHQkwBaObFOLkCrWOwLjXYRF+1M-77J91WNfx38sg@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 12:11 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> I hit this again while porting cplupluscheck to be invoked by meson as
> well. ISTM that we should just remove the uses of register. Yes, some very old
> compilers might generate worse code without register, but I don't think we
> need to care about peak efficiency with neolithic compilers.

+1. I seem to recall reading that the register keyword was basically
useless as long as 15 years ago.

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Peter Geoghegan

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