Potential of a compiler that creates the executable at once

rempas rempas at tutanota.com
Sat Feb 12 09:54:15 UTC 2022


On Saturday, 12 February 2022 at 09:00:18 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
>
> It doesn't assign variables to x87 registers. The reason it 
> doesn't is because the x87 is a stack machine, meaning the 
> registers all shift position.
>
> There is a way to fix that by using FXCH instructions, but I 
> never got around to doing that.

Thanks for the info! Yeah, agree with you! It seems why should 
all forget about x87 then.


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