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Just for the sake of accuracy, it's not so much that the PDP-11 had an instruction for pre- or post-incrementing, but had addressing modes for them (and decrementing), meaning that any instruction that accessed memory through a register could also be set to either pre- or post-increment or decrement that register at the same time. Compiler technology at the time really wasn't up to doing that automatically through optimization, so explicit support was the only way to get it to work.

Jules
– Jules

2018-02-22 16:01:37 +00:00
Commented Feb 22, 2018 at 16:01

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