> > And this _without_ optimisation. gcc is right to do this; if a function
> > clobbers registers, then let it do so when the variables don't contain
> > anything interersting anyway.
>
> Umm, the reason why there is a penalty for calling a function (and why
> c++ has inline functions to avoid the penalty) is because calling a
> function pushes all the registers onto the stack, and restores them
> afterward.
That's shite. It is usually the callee's responsibility to save registers
reserved for register variables, but no compiler that I know of saves
_everything_, even aside from clobbering one reg to return a result in.
And while we're on this topic, where in K&R or the ANSI spec does it state
that C is only to be compiled to a register machine anyway?
I was just pointing out that c was designed to allow for this kind of
flexibility; it leaves it open to the implementors to choose sensible
calling and register conventions, etc...
Matthew.
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