Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!husc6!wjh12!redsox!campbell From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: SCO MicroSoft C Compiler comments Message-ID: <1391@redsox.bsw.com> Date: 29 Aug 89 03:24:16 GMT References: <7227@megatest.UUCP> <610@uci.UUCP> <123591@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <196@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc. Lines: 13 In article <196@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: - ... Both MP and ix had some cases in -which the C compiler would generate code which the assembler couldn't -handle, using registers not in the 386 (R10 and R11 are PDP-11). Must've been a PDP-11 from a parallel universe. The PDP-11 architecture known in _this_ universe had eight registers, R0-R7; R6 was the stack pointer, usually referred to as SP, and R7 was the program counter, usually referred to as PC. -- Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc. campbell@bsw.com 120 Fulton Street wjh12!redsox!campbell Boston, MA 02146