4 Jan
2017
4 Jan
'17
11:08 p.m.
Random832 <random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
|On Wed, Jan 4, 2017, at 11:51, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> Ok, but that quite clearly was not what i have meant. I meant
|> that if you program in assembler, well, all those newer assembler
|> languages that i have seen, the target of an operation is the
|> target of a store, and say if it is a register that is also one of
|> the sources, it means nothing, from the language side.
|
|Yes but you are storing *twice*, two different values, to the same
|variable, in the same statement. There's no operation in any assembler
|language that does that, and at this point I honestly don't know what
|value you expect to 'win'.
Hm. Yet this is exactly what i want? (Hihi. Don't be offended,
i really have already forgotten the example. It was something
like "*i = j + *i++" or the like..)
|> ARM has
|> even predicates that perform operations on that value before the
|> store, even if the source is the same as the destination. It
|> simply strives me absurd that i, in C, cannot simply say what
|> i want
|
|Why do you think that "i = ... + ++i" is a reasonable way to say what
|you want?
Man, i write it down, and it even stands several code iterations?
That must be it, then!
|> and let the C compiler with all its knowledge of the target
|> system decide what to do about it.
Ciao.
--steffen