Re: To RISC or not to RISC


Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
I would call AL,AH,AX,EAX,BL,... funny (or better idiotic) names.
The only logical names for registers are r0,r1,r2,...
You really should thank AMD, that at least the new registers
in the x64 architecture got proper names.

There is nothing to prevent one from renaming these 64-bit registers
back to the "AL,AH,AX,EAX,BL,... " style.

Nathan.

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