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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] which register is used as FP on the x86
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:35:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3b6f2a55448fd35c7c49e2352e98171@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1040626135604.ZM882@Sindy>

>>intel 386DX Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual 1990

``it is a mistake to use the manufacturer's special call instruction''
(or conventions, especially on a processor with so few `general-purpose' registers that
dedicating one to hold a value that is simply an offset from another
is downright wasteful)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-26 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-25 17:30 ron minnich
2004-06-25 17:53 ` rog
2004-06-26 11:56   ` Andrew Lynch
2004-06-26 12:35     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-06-26 12:35     ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2004-06-26 14:27   ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-06-26 17:31     ` Charles Forsyth
2004-07-03  7:17 ` [9fans] cpuserver: dhcp for authsrv, rio, users, ssh, factotum, pull Stephen Wynne
2004-07-03 16:37   ` [9fans] andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-05  4:06     ` [9fans] Stephen Wynne
2004-07-05 17:23       ` [9fans] andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-05 20:33       ` [9fans] Eric Grosse

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