Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Signed/unsigned fixes

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:53:09 -0700
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 07:21:02PM +0200, J�rg Mayer wrote:
> the attached patch fixes some signed/unsigned warnings.

Checked in.

> One thing I stumbled
> upon was the use of the register keyword in print.c. Does it really make
> sense?

I don't know whether there are any significant C compilers still around
where a "register" declaration makes a difference in the generated code;
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that there aren't.  I don't use
"register" in any new code I write; I think of it as a legacy feature of
C.