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Re: IA32: printing FP register variables
- To: kthomas at gwdg dot de (Philipp Thomas)
- Subject: Re: IA32: printing FP register variables
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:50:03 -0400
- Cc: law at cygnus dot com, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
>>>>> Philipp Thomas writes:
Philipp> Sorry for jumping in, but does anybody know *why* intel did that
Philipp> braindamage, i.e. designed the original 8087 using a stack instead of
Philipp> memory mapped registers? I remember once playing with a Weitek (costly
Philipp> little beasts :), which did offer memory mapped access and that was
Philipp> noticeably faster than the stack.
Advice from IBM -- precursor to register window research.
David