The article’s objection to “parenthesized nonsense” is about the nonsense, not the parentheses. 3(%edi,%ebx,8) is hiding a multiplication, two additions, and a

The article’s objection to “parenthesized nonsense” is about the nonsense, not the parentheses. 3(%edi,%ebx,8) is hiding a multiplication, two additions, and a memory access, in an order that you wouldn’t guess from the syntax.