Re: Empirical data: assembly source vs. HLL source.

djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
12 Jul 1999 01:04:00 -0400

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From: djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 12 Jul 1999 01:04:00 -0400
Organization: IR
References: 99-07-023 99-07-038 99-07-042
Keywords: assembler

David Chase <chase@world.std.com> wrote:
> It's just insane that I write
> add r1,r3,r2 (quick, which is the destination operand?)


So don't. Write, e.g.,


      eax = ebx + ecx*8 + 3


and feed it through your favorite preassembler to print


      lea 3(%ebx,%ecx,8),%eax


for gcc's assembler.


---Dan

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