[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Better string hashing function

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 Mar 2000, Falk Hueffner wrote:

> Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > unsigned int hash_fval_string(const void *vkey, unsigned int num_buckets)
> > {
> >   register const char *key = (const char *)vkey;
> 
> Please leave off the "register" keyword, since it doesn't improev
> performance on any decent compiler and might confuse people who don't
> know it.

That's fine by me.  I only hope that gcc is one of those "decent"
compilers... :)
Anyway, the "const" keyword should be enough to make the compiler put it
into a register.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa