base + index register addressing
Richard Henderson
rth@cygnus.com
Fri Oct 17 20:51:00 GMT 1997
On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 11:07:12AM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> Well, on targets where we do fp/ap elimination we still don't care
> all that much since most don't have reg + scaled reg/const + constant offset.
> Which is what such addresses will turn into when the fp/ap gets eliminated.
>
> I'm not saying this extension isn't useful, just that it isn't as useful
> as one might initially think.
But i386 and m68k do, which are used widely enough to make it worth it.
r~
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