Re: Processor specific optimisations

rickh@capaccess.org (Rick Hohensee)
28 Jan 2002 01:11:08 -0500

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From: rickh@capaccess.org (Rick Hohensee)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 28 Jan 2002 01:11:08 -0500
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Posted-Date: 28 Jan 2002 01:11:08 EST

"R. L. Watkins" <RLWatkins@CompuServe.Com> wrote
> The short answer is "No".
>
> Too many of the hand-optimizations done by assembly language programmers
> (e.g. wraparound/overflow tricks) depend on information about the intent of
> the design of which the compiler itself is ignorant.
>
> An optimizing compiler will never accomplish such things until it can carry
> on a dialog with the programmer about these matters without inundating the
> programmer by rote with every possible question, at which point it will
> become not a compiler but an automated assembly language programmer.


Ah, nice. Speaking of the 6502 and deliberately falling off the edge
of the earth as a programming technique, has anyone ever used 6502
"pre-indexed indirect" addressing? I didn't find any occurance of it
in the C64 ROMs, 8k by Commodore and 8k by Microsoft.


Rick Hohensee

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