Some ports, such as hc08 support GETBYTE or GETWORD. However the regression tests do not test this functionality (grep getByte support/regression/gen/hc08/*/*.asm doesn't find anything, same for GetWord).
There should be regression tests for this functionality, to warn us in case GETBYTE or GETWORD get completly broken.
Philipp
For mcs51-small genGetByte is found in bug1921073.asm and bug1839277.asm. But both are mcs51-only tests for testing the generic pointer type indicator.
And genGetWord is not found. So yes, some test cases are welcome.
In current SDCC, the getbyte regression test tests these on hc08.
Philipp