Re: [sdcc-devel] Commit: OneByteOps and promotion

[Scott D. <sc...@da...>]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Hans-Juergen Dorn wrote:

> Hi Scott!
> 
> I've come along the same thoughts when looking at long shifts.
> Using multiplies only saves time for a few cases, especially when
> left and result are the same and there is no efficient way to use
> both result bytes.
> The resulting code (mixed shifts and multiplies) might become a
> nightmare to support.

Yep!

> 
> P.S:
> 
> Your simulator is performing nicely for pic16 and helps us a lot
> while debugging changes to the pic16 port.

Great - so indirectly I still am helping the SDCC port!

Scott