ill effect of <register>+<constant>

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Fri Sep 21 15:23:00 GMT 2007


"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com> writes:

> To me, adding a constant to a register and getting a different register is
> all but a useful feature (maybe it is in e.g. PPC semantics where registers
> can be represented by plain numbers). But beyond that,

That's the main feature.  Registers _are_ plain numbers.

Andreas.

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