On 06/05/2010, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
>
> IIRC, (from my human rusty memory, I don't have the documents on hand)
> the current standard only requires that variable declared with the
> register class should not have their adress taken thru the unary &
> operator, and might have some imprecise phrasing about register being
> a hint for optimisation. IIRC the C++ language might not have this
> requirement (of prohibiting the & unary operator).

In C++ it's only a hint, which the compiler is free to ignore. Its use
will be deprecated in C++1x.

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