huh? I work with pointers all the time, and I don't think I ever cared about assembler addressing modes.. Who cares if you pre-increment in the same instruction

huh? I work with pointers all the time, and I don't think I ever cared about assembler addressing modes.. Who cares if you pre-increment in the same instruction or if you need a separate operation for that? Who cares if offset is computed as part of the load or separately? This does not change how the program is built or debugged. (Unless you are talking about x86 real mode segment registers. Luckily, we can leave this behind and never talk about them again :) )