[cfe-dev] A question on register allocation

[Renato Golin via cfe-dev]

On 5 October 2015 at 16:39, James Y Knight <jyknight at google.com> wrote:
> To be clear: I don't think this feature actually makes sense for any normal
> userland code. The list of caveats is so large that probably the only place
> it might make sense at all is in a kernel.

Unfortunately, unlike some car manufacturers, we can't selectively
enable / disable features based on what's using the compiler. :)


> And since apparently the linux
> kernel decided not to use it, it's probably not worth implementing, anyways.

It isn't. No one else uses that, either.

cheers,
--renato