The Natural Philosopher  writes:
> On 01/07/2019 08:32, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher  writes:
>>> On 30/06/2019 21:02, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>>> That’s a problem both for certain lagre
>>>> applications, and for security improvements like ASLR.
>>>>
>>>> 64-bit GPRs are handy for some applications but rarely essential.
>>>>
>>>> For both Intel and ARM the 64-bit instruction sets double the number of
>>>> architectural GPRs.
>>>
>>> Ground penetrating radars?
>>
>> General Purpose Registers.
>>
> I know that. But who else does?

People who are interested enough in assembly language to learn some of
the associated terminology.

(People are aren’t interested in assembly presumably don’t care about
the detailed differences between instruction sets.)

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