* Harald van D??k <truedfx@g.o> schrieb:

> The compiler is not totally free to ignore the register keyword. Both
> the C and the C++ standards require that the compiler complain when
> taking the address of a register variable. Other compilers will issue a
> hard error for it. Fixing the code to not declare the variable as
> register would be the correct thing to do.

BTW: is the register keyword still so useful nowadays ?
Shouldn't a modern (optimizing) compiler be clever enough to 
find out when it can use registers instead of RAM ?

> Make sure you *understand* warnings, and then you can decide whether to
> fix the code, if there is anything to fix, or to ignore.

hmm, is there a (portable) way to prevent a specific warning
in an specific place ? (some kind of #pragma ?)


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