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Re: ill effect of <register>+<constant>
>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
Andreas> "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?
Andreas> There are many more architectures besides ppc and x86.
Andreas> Almost all of them have numbered registers.
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.
paul