any consensus on "register" storage class?

[walter harms]

David Daney wrote:
> walter harms wrote:
>> hi,
>> today we did some test with gcc 4 on i586 and found that register is a 
>> placebo, sometimes even slower than int (gcc strangeness).
>>
> 
> Almost invariably GCC will do a better job at register allocation than a 
> human programmer.  I don't find your results strange at all.
> 
> 
>> i would suggest:
>> #define register
>>
> 
> That will not work in general as the following declaration is legal:
> 
>    register k;
> 
> With your define, removing the 'register' keyword results in a syntax 
> error.
> 

your are right, but the define was a symbol not a patch.
re,
  wh