Author: Guido Schimmels
Date: 05:17:34 06/12/98
I'm going to port my program from 68xxx to x86 soon. My current board represantion is 16 bit int, because the 68xxx cannot use char values for addressing without type casting. The 68020 and higher support autoscaling addressing modes, which will be used everytime when addressing arrays with elements bigger than 8 bit. My question is, how do other architectures deal with the problem. I heard PowerPC for example doesn't support autoscaling and will have do an extra shift here. So should I change all my arrays from int to char when possible ? - Guido
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