Why should indirect offsets be avoided?

Question

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The GOST R IEC 60880 B.5cc standard states: "indirect offsets should be avoided." Why is that? Indirect addressing is used everywhere, is it really worth spending a register and an instruction every time just to make it more convenient to work in the debugger? Or is this an inaccuracy in translation and actually something else is meant?

Answer 1

It meant something else. I do not have the original 60880, but IEC 880-1986 says in the same paragraph: "Indirect shifting should be avoided". There is no displacement here.