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Sure, but the point was that C was designed to implement Unix and Unix was implemented on DEC machines and DEC machines had a particular architecture around reg
by rswail 4y ago
Sure, but the point was that C was designed to implement Unix and Unix was implemented on DEC machines and DEC machines had a particular architecture around registers that included the pre/post increment, which lead to the C *p++ style to iterate.
- im3w1l 4y agoI wanted to point out that such instructions are in use to this day rather than being than being something from a long gone era.