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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: varargs
Message-ID: <5380@alice.uUCp>
Date: Fri, 2-May-86 15:02:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  2 15:02:31 1986
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>   Some architectures -- most notably, the IBM-360/370 -- allowed for "load
> multiple" and "store multiple" commands which saved the whole bank of regis-
> ters in one instruction.

Of course, that one instruction almost always takes more time
(but less space) than an equivalent sequence of ordinary
loads or stores.