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From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
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Subject: Re: Style [++i vs i++]
Message-ID: <3453@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 19:55:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 19:55:59 1987
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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