On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 18:45 -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote: > > This is not true. If you use a register for any purpose like this, > > it can't be used for anything else and that has a cost. > > This is a segment register. Please go and read about what segment > registers.
I know how the x86 works quite well .. perhaps unfortunately I've written several major applications in x86 assembler (including a complete text editor). -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
