ill effect of <register>+<constant>

[Andreas Schwab]

"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> writes:

>   I don't see how removing an unused and non-useful feature would really count
> as "crippling".  I'm not suggesting it should be disabled for ppc, but for
> x86, really .... what could conceivably be the use?

There are many more architectures besides ppc and x86.  Almost all of
them have numbered registers.

Andreas.

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