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Re: ill effect of <register>+<constant>
- From: Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web dot cs dot ndsu dot NoDak dot edu>
- To: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
- Cc: <schwab at suse dot de>, <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>, <jbeulich at novell dot com>, <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:07:38 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: ill effect of <register>+<constant>
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul Koning wrote:
> Sure. The question is: on how many of those do good programmers ever
> do register number arithmetic?
>
> I know of none. I would not want to work with a programmer who did
> such a thing.
What about registers used in pairs,
either by the hardware or by an ABI?
Perhaps a macro to fill both halves of an
AVR's 17:16, 19:80, ... or 31:30 register?
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Mike hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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