Why is a feature that helps the assembler catch some errors at assembly time not useful?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf of Steve Smith [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 4:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: *-* Primarily, I don't think distinguishing 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the general registers is all that useful. If your program is using 64-bit registers, then hopefully it plans on restoring them for its caller. Beyond that, what's the point? sas On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 2:56 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > GR64 (which I highly nonrecommend) > > Why? > >
