Re: [fpc-devel] x86-64 compilation of while loops

(Apologies if anyone has received multiple copies of this reply - I was having trouble with the e-mail client and the message formatting) Good call on using "repeat...until" in my own code, thanks! I wasn't clear, but my intention was also keeping the conditional check at the end of

Re: [fpc-devel] x86-64 compilation of while loops

Good call on using "repeat...until" in my own code, thanks! I wasn't clear, but my intention was also keeping the conditional check at the end of the loop, but duplicating it at the start with the condition inverted.  In other words, having both these example code segments:     xorl   

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Re: [fpc-devel] x86-64 compilation of while loops

J. Gareth Moreton schrieb am Mo., 28. Mai 2018, 02:55: > In this case, the ".balign" hint adds 2 bytes to pad the loop. However, > my question is this... why does it immediately jump to the end of the loop > to check the condition (which is very likely to be true on