> > When I wrote :
> >
> >     i++;
> >
> > It compiled it into :
> >
> >     movf i, W
> >     incf i, F
>
> Now, any optimizing compiler and even many merely opportunistic ones,
> might notice that the value of the expression "i++" isn't used in the
> case you mentioned, and would thus treat it less generally.  But a less
> evolved C compiler - and from what I've seen, C compilers for embedded
> processors are usually rather primitive - might very well choose to leave
> it up to the programmer to write instead "++i" when the more efficent
> code generated for that form will suffice.

You mean:

        incf i,F
        movf i,W

or somesuch?  I don't know if the CCS compiler would generate that but it
would seem the logical counterpart to i++; the movf is superfluous in this
case, of course, but how is the compiler to know that if it can't figure it
out in the former case?