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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Memory management in Dennis Ritchie's C Compiler
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:59:08 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200826155908.674C418C0CD@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: John Cowan

    > That's always true on the PDP-11 and Vax ... because the processor
    > architecture (which has pre-increment and post-decrement instructions,
    > but not their counterparts)

After Doug's message, I carefull re-read this, and I'm not sure it's correct?
The PDP-11 has pre-decrement and post-increment, not the other way around (as
above) - unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant by those terms?

That's why:

	*p++ = 0;

turns (if p is in R2) into

	CLR	(R2)+

R2 is used, and then incremented after it has been used.

   Noel

             reply	other threads:[~2020-08-26 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-26 15:59 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2020-08-26 16:09 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-26 19:13   ` Clem Cole
2020-08-26 16:14 ` Jim Geist
2020-08-26 17:31 ` John Cowan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-08-27  8:37 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-08-26 13:24 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-26 15:41 ` John Cowan
2020-08-25  9:36 Steve Simon
2020-08-17 22:32 Norman Wilson
2020-08-17 22:55 ` Bakul Shah
2020-08-17 23:12 ` Chet Ramey
2020-08-18  6:33 ` arnold
2020-08-17 19:51 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-17 19:27 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-17 19:30 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-17 19:44   ` Dan Halbert
2020-08-17 19:50   ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-17 22:05     ` Arthur Krewat
2020-08-18  0:52 ` Rob Gingell
2020-08-17  2:02 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-17 18:02 ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-17 18:13   ` Jim Geist
2020-08-17 18:48     ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-17 19:08       ` Jim Geist
2020-08-17 19:28         ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-17 19:35           ` Jim Geist
2020-08-17 19:41             ` Richard Salz
2020-08-17 23:40               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-08-15 21:50 Dibyendu Majumdar
2020-08-16 15:20 ` arnold
2020-08-16 15:27   ` Jim Geist
2020-08-17 16:13 ` Dan Cross
2020-08-17 20:16   ` Dibyendu Majumdar
2020-08-17 20:34     ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-17 20:43       ` Dibyendu Majumdar
2020-08-17 21:05         ` Warner Losh
2020-08-17 22:47         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-17 23:06           ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-08-17 21:29     ` Dibyendu Majumdar
2020-08-24 15:58     ` Dan Cross
2020-08-24 17:08       ` John Cowan
2020-08-24 17:15         ` Clem Cole
2020-08-24 17:24           ` Clem Cole
2020-08-24 17:20         ` Dan Cross
2020-08-25 23:06           ` Arthur Krewat

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