Re: errno, Code density

From	Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.arch
Subject	Re: errno, Code density
Date	2025-07-01 16:21 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:18:33 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:

> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
> >On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:13:51 GMT
> >scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:
> >  
> >> EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> writes:  
> >> >Anton Ertl wrote:    
> >> >> EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> writes:
> >> >> [System V ABI for AMD64]    
> >> >>> Also it makes multiple references to x64 instructions that
> >> >>> don't exist in Intel or AMD docs, LEAQ and MOVABS.    
> >> >> 
> >> >> LEAQ is AT&T syntax for LEA with a "quadword" operand.    
> >>   
> >> >
> >> >And since this is the basis for the ABI design for a processor
> >> >that runs almost all the desktops and servers on the planet,    
> >> 
> >> Desktops, yes.  That's changing slowly, although now with
> >> the orange clown in charge - foreign government entities are
> >> moving away from software controlled by American companies,
> >> and I expect the desktop migration rate from windows to linux to
> >> increase considerably over the next decade.
> >> 
> >> Servers, not by a large margin.  Linux (and a handful of
> >> proprietary unix and linux servers, including Z-series) provide
> >> most of the servers (excepting on-prem exchange, sharepoint
> >> and AD systems).  60% of compute in Azure, for example,
> >> are linux cores.  The ratio is even larger in google (90% linux)
> >> oracle  and amazon(90% linux) cloud operations.
> >> 
> >> In terms of pure server numbers, windows is likely less than
> >> 20% globally.  
> >
> >It seems, you got it backward.  
> 
> Got what backwards?
> 
> > The bigger problem with poorly
> >documented x86-64 AT&T syntax is on Linux.   
> 
> I've been using x86-64 AT&T syntax since 1989
> (e.g. SVR4).  I've never considered it poorly documented.
> 
> >It's not that AT&T syntax is
> >not used at all on Windows, but it's less dominant here.
> >  
> 
> Your claim was that windows runs "almost all the servers on
> the planet", which is clearly incorrect.

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                Re: Code density scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-06-22 20:26 +0000
                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-06-26 01:12 +0000
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                Re: Code density Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-06-28 07:45 +0000
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                Re: Code density Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-06-28 12:00 +0000
                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-06-28 16:01 +0000
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                Re: Code density Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-06-29 18:01 +0200
                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-06-29 20:50 +0000
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                Re: Code density scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-06-27 13:55 +0000
                Re: Code density EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-06-27 15:09 -0400
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                Re: errno, Code density EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-06-29 14:02 -0400
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                Re: errno, Code density EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-06-30 12:51 -0400
                Re: errno, Code density scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-06-30 17:13 +0000
                Re: errno, Code density Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-07-01 13:11 +0300
                Re: errno, Code density scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-07-01 13:18 +0000
                Re: errno, Code density Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-07-01 16:21 +0300
                Re: errno, Code density Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-07-01 16:28 +0300
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                Re: errno, Code density EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-07-01 11:09 -0400
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                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-07-01 20:03 +0000
                Re: Code density scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-07-01 21:07 +0000
                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-07-01 23:20 +0000
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                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-07-16 01:18 +0000
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                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-07-18 19:54 +0000
                Re: Code density EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-07-20 13:05 -0400
                Re: Code density anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-07-20 17:33 +0000
                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-07-20 20:09 +0000
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                Re: compacting branches, was Code density anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-07-21 12:33 +0000
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                Re: compacting branches, was Code density anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-07-21 15:26 +0000
                Re: compacting branches, was Code density Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-07-21 18:06 +0200
                Re: compacting branches, was Code density anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-07-21 17:26 +0000
                Re: compacting branches, was Code density Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-07-21 19:31 +0200
                Re: Code density EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-07-21 10:50 -0400
                Re: Code density anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-07-21 15:28 +0000
                Re: Code density EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-07-21 17:08 -0400
                Re: Code density anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-07-02 05:25 +0000
                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-07-01 21:49 +0000
                Re: Code density scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-07-01 23:26 +0000
                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-07-02 00:04 +0000
                Re: Code density anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-07-02 05:18 +0000
                Re: Code density EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-07-02 11:20 -0400
                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-07-02 15:45 +0000
                Re: Code density scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-07-02 16:56 +0000
                Re: Code density mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-07-02 17:06 +0000
                Re: Code density anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-06-18 06:26 +0000
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                Re: Code density anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-07-01 15:23 +0000
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