Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

From: Mike Castle (dalgoda@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 15:55:26 EST


On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:47:09PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> tmp = *p++;
> *q = f(tmp, *p++);
> return p;
>
> is equivalent to more idiomatic
>
> *q = f(p[0], p[1]);
> return p+2;

Which gets better assembler out of various versions of gcc?

mrc

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