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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.