From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Interesting benchmark results
Date: 14 Mar 1997 05:20:25 GMT
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Aren't %eax, %ebx, %ecx, and %edx in i386 and above general purpose 32 bit
registers? As I recall it is %esi and %edi that are not usable with
certain instructions.

(Excepting of course stosl and movsl, which are peculiar *instructions*
rather than the registers they disallow being peculiar.)

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