Re: RFA: Changes to allow extensions to operator set

Andrew Cagney
2003-09-04T02:18:20Z

> 4. I removed register declarations in routines I touched, just on
> general principles. [I believe that all register declarations in
> GDB and much other GNU software are anachronistic holdovers from
> some bygone era. GCC ignores them, or so I'm told, except to
> insure that & is not applied to register variables. Furthermore,
> my impression is that many of these declarations would be
> inappropriate even in non-optimizing compilers, since they often
> seem to be used rather indiscriminantly in ways that are likely to
> favor putting the wrong things into registers.]

BTW,

This is a separate but obvious (and tedious) change (you'll notice I
occasionally expunge "register" from random files). Can you first up
just expunge the "register" on the files you're interested in? Doing
this keeps the cosmetic and functional changes separate.

Oh, gdb.base/store.exp abuses "register" to create a few test senarios.

enjoy,
Andrew