From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ihnss!knudsen
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Big C is problem on 8086 too
Article-I.D.: ihnss.159
Posted: Fri Sep 17 12:04:22 1982
Received: Tue Sep 21 09:15:43 1982

The "big C" probelm exists on the 8086 too.
Granted, it doesn't have as many regs as the 68K,
but still, I wish our 8086 C compiler would at least remember what's
in the %ax (accumulator).  Our compiler doesn't permit "register"declarations,
so every reference to a variable (like repeated tests for equality
to various constant values) causes the %ax to be reloaded from RAM,
usually via the stack frame.
I wish there were some way to dodge this and other time & space wasters.
	mike knudsen	ihnss!knudsen