Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!ihlpg!tainter From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Style [++i vs i++] Message-ID: <3453@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 19:55:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.3453 Posted: Tue Jul 14 19:55:59 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 01:12:31 EDT References: <8186@brl-adm.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 9 In article <8186@brl-adm.ARPA>, escott@BONNIE.UCI.EDU (Scott Menter) writes: > Actually, I seem to remember that on at least one compiler I was using, > it was better to use pre-auto-decrement and post-auto-increment, when > possible. The reason was that the machine had a pre-decrement and a > post-increment addressing mode (for stack manipulation, presumably) which > were a win compared to ADD #1,MEMLOC. PDP-11 The friendliest family of 16 bit processors around. If the VAX had been a true 32 bit version of this it would be a serious machine. > Scott Menter UCI ICS Computing Support Group Univ. of Calif. at Irvine