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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by pjmlp on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:45AM (#22875233)
That is a quirk of C's arrays, no other language besides Assembly allows for that.

And even in Assembly, it depends on the CPU flavor which kind of memory accesses are available.

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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by kazinator on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @09:51AM (#22877672)
It depends entirely on the whims of the assembly language design. Assembly lanuages for the Motorola 68000 could allow operand syntax like like [A0 + offset], which could commute with [offset + A0], but the predominant syntax for that CPU family has it as offset(A0) which cannot be written A0(offset).

None of that changes what instruction is generated, just like C's quirk is one of pure syntax that doesn't affect the run-time.

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