Ian Piumarta <ian.piumarta at inria.fr> said:
>> Due to the "peculiarities"
>> of some instruction sets, there are even such things as "optimizing
>> assemblers"!
>
>Assemblers for the Alpha (or was is MIPS?  It's been a *looong* time...)
>make _register allocation_ decisions.
>
I do vaguely recall that the Ultrix/MIPS assembler did optimization
on subroutine calls (branch first, then push the final argument)...


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