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Briefly discussed on the phone with Patrick, Jerry, and chromatic: The versions of the math opcodes that modify an existing destination PMC instead of creating a new destination PMC are not useful to HLLs, because they make assumptions about assignment semantics that don't hold true for all (or possibly even any) HLLs. Code generated from PCT takes the result of the math op as a temporary result value, and then performs a separate assignment operation to the HLL result variable, following the HLLs semantics for assignment. The plan is to make the regular variants (like 'add') create a new destination PMC, and then deprecate the old n_* variants (like 'n_add'). Allison
