any consensus on "register" storage class?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, David Daney wrote:

> My suggestion is to remove register declarations on a case by case
> basis. This would have the added advantage of not confusing people
> looking at the register declaration and thinking that it actually
> does something.

i actually did submit a patch a while back that removed all of the
"register" declarations, and the result was that the generated
executables didn't change in size at all.

i can re-submit that (updated) patch if there's any interest.

rday