On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:17:24PM +0000, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 22:17:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > >Yes, it does. Returning an int in EAX now becomes returning a pair > >[EAX,EDX]. > > It is not that big of a deal, EDX is a trash register anyway if memory > serve, but then, it become very bad when it do not fit in register > anymore.
On the contrary, it's an extremely big deal. Registers are a rare resource, and allocating them for maximal usefulness is a major issue in code optimization. T -- A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- P. Erdos