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- From: jamie@jamie.interpath.net (Jim Cooper)
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- Subject: Re: PPC compilers
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 14:15:56 GMT
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- In article <4cgo3i$b8n@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) writes:
- > Lars Duening (duening@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de) wrote:
- > : That doesn't count because in C you don't need to know if this statement
- > : compiles to a .w, to a .l or even to a .q .
- >
- > but when the .l meets a real-world color-register, you will notice
- > your claim is not always true.
-
- Why do you insist on making this seem harder than it needs to be?
-
- The answer is quite simple and straightforward:
-
- In ASM, *you*, the programmer, must remember to add the '.w' by hand every
- time you reference the "real-world color-register," otherwise, possible
- fireworks.
-
- In C, the structure is defined *once*, in a system header file, in fact, and
- the programmer never needs to know if the compiler will generate '.w', '.l',
- or anything else.
-
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