Re: [Mspgcc-users] Strange assembly for pointer arithmetic on mspgcc-20120406

[Radu R. <rad...@cl...>]

On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 10:29 -0600, Peter Bigot wrote:

> Yes, it's obviously sign-extending the pointers and doing a 32-bit
> subtraction.  I have a recollection that how mspgcc treated pointers
> (signed/unsigned) changed sometime during the 4.7 development cycle.
> 
> mspgcc-20120911 appears to do the right thing and generates a simple
> 16-bit subtract.

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the fast answer! Casting the pointers to "unsigned int"
before subtracting seems to be a valid workaround to the problem.

Is there any chance of getting the right behaviour in 20120406, since
it's supposed to be "LTS" ?

Thanks,

Radu