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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: PDP11s vs the micros
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 13:28:44 EDT
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> Not uncommon, but it doesn't generate autoincrement code on the PDP-11, VAX,
> or M68000, because they all have only predecrement and postincrement modes -
> this construct would require a preincrement mode.  Do any machines have
> preincrement addressing modes?

OK. Bad example. How about:

strcpy(to, from)
register char *to, *from;
{
	char hold=to;
	while(*to++ = *from++)
		continue;
	return hold;
}
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