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Re: more than 10 operands in `asm'
- To: Robert Harley <Robert dot Harley at inria dot fr>
- Subject: Re: more than 10 operands in `asm'
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:04:45 -0700
- cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199811041044.LAA13588@pauillac.inria.fr>you write:
> I'm sure 10 was picked as an arbitrary number deemed suitable long ago
> whereas 20 might be more suitable for ARM, 40 for Alpha etc. Or even
> more if you allow for floating point regs.
>
> Why have an arbitrary limitation that really blocks people and could
> trivially be removed?
Because stuff like %10 would have a different meaning after the change.
jeff