On 01/07/2019 10:59, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> 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.)
>
Ok, but there is a lot of assumption in there :-)

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