A.0.8 Registers

A.0.8.1 Availability of Registers

A number of registers are available for holding objects with the register storage-class specifier. See the "Windows NT for Alpha AXP Calling Standard" for details on register usage conventions. The CLAXP compiler backend currently ignores the users register storage-class specifier and allocates variables to registers itself. The frontend does check that the usage conforms to ANSI standard (i.e. it is an error to take the address of a register variable).