[Development] Removing the use of 'register'

[Olivier Goffart]

On Saturday 15 June 2013 00:59:18 Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> On 15 June 2013 00:37, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> > C++11 did not change the meaning of the keyword. This is a completely
> > made-up warning by Clang, like the GCC warning that says const in prvalue
> > return types makes no sense or the one telling you to use () around &&
> > with ||.
> No, "register" is officially deprecated (N3337 §D.2 [depr.register]),
> so the warning "makes sense". My concern was about getting such
> warnings from code we don't have control upon, that is, 3rdparty code
> (qtbase/3rdparty, webkit, v8...)

We need to remove 'register' in our code.  Especially in public headers.

For third party code such as v8 or webkit, it does not make sens to patch 
those project for that (But we could submit patches upstream, if we really 
want to.)

-- 
Olivier

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