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Re: Avoid use of "register" as optimization hint
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- Cc: joseph at codesourcery dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:12:08 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Avoid use of "register" as optimization hint
- References: <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1306051516480 dot 14749 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20130607215803 dot 20E5C2C088 at topped-with-meat dot com> <20130607 dot 150846 dot 391679654440350613 dot davem at davemloft dot net>
> This topic came up when I wanted to use more recent GMP sparc code in
> glibc's sysdeps, and I ended up only being able to use code that I had
> written completely myself.
>
> Others, at the time, did not express the same level of confidence you do.
Do you mean just others here, or did you ask a GMP maintainer and/or an FSF
licensing representative?