On 02/04/2015 11:17 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
Even for the 8bit ones? Since we have the *H and *L register
we have more 8 bit regs than we have 16/32 bit regs and it
might just be worth it.
Fewer, actually. gcc doesn't really use the H registers much,
Is that true for other compilers as well?
Probably. It wrecks havoc on register allocation, and it doesn't buy
that much, especially on 64 bits where all the registers can be used for
8-bit operations.
-hpa
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