1 Berkeley Yacc reflects its origins. The reason so many routines
2 use exactly six register variables is that Berkeley Yacc was
3 developed on a VAX using PCC. PCC placed at most six variables
4 in registers. I went to considerable effort to find which six
5 variables most belonged in registers. Changes in machines and
6 compilers make that effort worthless, perhaps even harmful.
8 The code contains many instances where address calculations are
9 performed in particular ways to optimize the code for the VAX.