Avoid use of "register" as optimization hint
David Miller
davem@davemloft.net
Fri Jun 7 22:16:00 GMT 2013
From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:12:08 -0700 (PDT)
>> 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?
Others here, who pointed this issue out when I posted the patch at the time.
For example:
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-01/msg00425.html
Which suggested we need to ask the FSF for approval.
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