From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] which register is used as FP on the x86 From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:35:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1040626135604.ZM882@Sindy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: aef6ef26-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>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)