Re: 8086 register allocation

From	Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: 8086 register allocation
Date	2021-05-11 06:44 +0000
Organization	news.netcologne.de
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gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> schrieb:

[80x87]

> There are description of some compilers that give up on compiling any
> code that needs more than eight registers.

Even worse.  If I remember correctly, Turbo Pascal 3 simply
generated wrong code if the number of stack slots was exceeded.
The user just had to make sure that the formulas were not too
complex.

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