> 
> On 3/17/07, John Dammeyer <johnd@autoartisans.com> wrote:
> > That's an organizational issue and is why I stress, if you 
> program in C,
> > you must be able to understand the assembler it generates 
> in order to
> > make the most compact code.  If needed.
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> Though I did hope that the compiler would have managed to optimize
> 
> do ... while ( --len );
> 
> into:
> 
> loop
>     ...
>     decfsz len,f
>     goto loop
> 
> Orin.


Yes.  True.  Although I still think the Bytecraft makes some of the
tightest C code once you figure out what makes tight and what doesn't.
You'd have to ask Walter Banks why it doesn't do the decfsz.  I don't
know if he haunts this list anymore.

John Dammeyer

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