Compilers and programming style (was Re: A question of style)

Walter Bright bright at Data-IO.COM
Thu Jan 11 05:54:20 AEST 1990


In article <534 at bbxsda.UUCP> scott at bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:
<In article <2283 at dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright at dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
<<volatile int *p;
<<*p;		/* has side effects and must not be optimized away	*/
<Just curious - what kind of code should be generated for the above C fragment?

Should be something like:
	MOV BX,p
	MOV AX,[BX]



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