Compiler optimization (was: 8086 (was Re: more talking to the press.))

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Fri Nov 14 14:39:30 2003

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:

> Would be great, I still haven't seen one like that.
> And just let me guess, it'll replace it by a REP STOSB,
> and not use STOSW or try to allign the REP to 16 Bit borders...
Yeah, I've seen them translate to STOSB, probably ebcause the
C code was using a 'char *'... never tried using that with a
'short *', now I come to think of it.

--f
Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 14:39:30 GMT