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SubjectRe: Patch to remove undefined C code


On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Mike Castle wrote:

> 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?

On which platform? If it would be VAX - sure, autoincrement rocks,
but for something like x86 I would expect the second form to do better.
Besides, it's more readable and is harder to fsck up when you are
modifying the code.

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