[fpc-devel] Proposal: Enhanced replacement for assignment operators

[Martin]

  On 07/08/2010 08:28, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
>
> Nevertheless inc/dec generates better code because fpc is too dump to
> convert += / -= into inc/dec etc. :)
Better in which way?

I did a quick test (on a very simple source only) (fpc 2.5.1)

inc(a), a+=1; a:= a + 1; all generate "incl"

inc(a,3); a := a + 3; generate "addl"

Martin