Oleg Verych @ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:56:28 +0000 (UTC)
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> This is problem of high-level design, or blame whatever you want (e.g.
> 8-bit past, Intel+MS hegemony, C and its "implementation-defined"), but
> not msp430 toolchain.
>
> C was meant to be a macro-language for PDP-11 or something like that. And
> all this is *text*. 30+ years of C, 20+ years of diff + patch --
> something is very strange with _modern software technology_.

Yes, *(--i)/*(i++) make such impression:

+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_MSP430
`+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11
  "A popular but false folk myth is that the instruction set architecture
   of the PDP-11 influenced the idiomatic use of the C programming
   language."
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