On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:25:24 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Looks like this change has also already been made, by JDK-8319440.
>> 
>> All of the other non-comment uses of "register" I found in HotSpot are gcc 
>> local variable register specifications:
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-13.2.0/gcc/Local-Register-Variables.html
>> So are a different thing and not affected by the deprecation/removal of the 
>> C++ "register" keyword.
>
> Ah, I was not aware that the asm specifications for explicit registers 
> overrides the warning about the register keyword, thanks!

It's not that it overrides the warning.  They are different syntactic 
constructs that just happen to have
a word in common.  The joys of parsing C++ ...

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14988#discussion_r1427925300

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