smallint usage guidelines

[David Seikel]

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:45:40 +0200 Natanael Copa
<natanael.copa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 	; eax = 1
> 	xor eax,eax	; 2 bytes
> 	inc eax		; 1 byte
> 
> 	; eax = -1
> 	xor eax,eax	; 2 bytes
> 	dec eax		; 1 byte
> 
> 	; eax = 256
> 	xor eax,eax	; 2 bytes
> 	inc ah		; 2 bytes IIRC
> 
> oh.. busybox is coded in C and not asm... then this is irrelevant ;-)

And runs on more than just x86 compatible CPUs.

Hell, I have a PlayStation 3 sitting in front of me with busybox
running on it, that's nothing like an x86.  B-)
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