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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Style [++i vs i++]
Message-ID: <856@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 03:23:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 03:23:37 1987
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>> I just tried this on my Integrated Solutions w/ 4.2BSD:
>> main() { int i; i++,5; }
>> and I got this (useless crud deleted):

>>	movl	fp@(-4),d0	;*********** Not necessary
>>	addql	#1,fp@(-4)
>>	moveq	#5,d0

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned (I won't say "noticed"!) that not
only did the compiler materialize the value of i++ (which is what was
under discussion), it also materialized the 5!

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)