varargs

Andrew Koenig ark at alice.UucP
Sat May 3 05:02:31 AEST 1986


>   Some architectures -- most notably, the IBM-360/370 -- allowed for "load
> multiple" and "store multiple" commands which saved the whole bank of regis-
> ters in one instruction.

Of course, that one instruction almost always takes more time
(but less space) than an equivalent sequence of ordinary
loads or stores.



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