From: bc@nospicedham.freeuk.com   
      
   On 17/12/2017 14:54, Bernhard Schornak wrote:   
   > Bartc wrote:   
      
   >> Numbered registers seem to used on many machines with multiple registers.   
   >   
   >   
   > Like my first home-made computer powered by a Motorola 68000.   
   > I might have understood, if you'd introduced your alternative   
   > register names in an assembler in the early eighties, but now   
   > (35 years later!) it seems a little bit too late to establish   
   > new register naming acknowledged by the majority of assembler   
   > programmers.   
      
   In the eighties I used the proper register names for Z80 and 8086; they   
   weren't really orthogonal enough to be numbered anyway, and they all had   
   different uses.   
      
   But with the x64, things have got out of hand...   
      
      
   >   
   > You always are free to create a couple of macros to name your   
   > register set with names of your favorite celebrities, but you   
   > should not expect someone might be willing to substitute your   
   > names with the established ones to understand your code... ;)   
      
      
   Some of my test software (eg. disassemblers), can be switched between   
   either scheme for display, so you either see D0, or you see RAX.   
      
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   bartc   
      
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