2011/4/19 Nikolai Zhubr <n-a-zh...@yandex.ru>: > Now, with the > introduction of 64-bit processors IIRC AMD took care of this problem by > providing some means to execute floating-point operations without the need > for traditional FPU register space, thus allowing to avoid the need to > save/restore FPU state. IIRC these are some _new_ opcodes, unavailable on > earlier CPUs.
Very interesting -- can you provide further detail on this? I could not find anything relevant neither in vol.1 ch.6 nor vol.5 ch.2 of AMD's APM -- is there something I overlooked? -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
