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From: phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice C 5.02 REVIEW, By Matthew Dillon
Message-ID: <5144@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 30 Jun 89 22:15:57 GMT
References: <8906300559.AA12971@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Vancouver,  WA.
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In article <8906300559.AA12971@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>	Well, here is a review of Lattice C V5.02 vs (if you insist) Manx C
>	V3.6a

[many good comments deleted]
>
>	......................  Nobody in their right mind uses MOVEM when
>	they have only one register to move.

Minor nit to pick here. I regularly use MOVEM with one (data) register to 
move if I don't want to disturb the contents of the flags. Example:

	movem.l	d0,-(sp)
	jsr	some_function	;returns a status in the zero flag
	movem.l	(sp)+,d0	;no change of zero flag here
	beq	success
failure:
	...

>
>
>						-Matt

Overall, a very helpful review. I've been seriously considering
making the switch, since it appears that a new Manx release is not likely
in the *reasonable* future. Thanks for helping make up my mind.

-Phil



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