ill effect of <register>+<constant>

Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
Fri Sep 21 19:24:00 GMT 2007


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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