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Re: gcc 2.7.2.1 optimizer bug?


On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:07:26 -0800 (PST), art@acc.com (Art Berggreen) wrote:
>>	subq.w #1,%a1
>>	/*   ^ note the size spezifier here 16 bit !!!!!!!!!!!!!! */
>
>Arithmetic operations on 68k address registers are always promoted to
>32 bits.
`sign extended' would be more accurate.

According the the programmer's guide, when an address register is the
source of a word operation, only the low 16-bits are used.  When an
address register is the destination, the operands are sign-extended
to 32-bits.

Peter