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   Thomas Koenig to gah4@u.washington.edu   
   Re: 8086 register allocation   
   11 May 21 06:44:07   
   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   gah4  schrieb:   
      
   [80x87]   
      
   > There are description of some compilers that give up on compiling any   
   > code that needs more than eight registers.   
      
   Even worse.  If I remember correctly, Turbo Pascal 3 simply   
   generated wrong code if the number of stack slots was exceeded.   
   The user just had to make sure that the formulas were not too   
   complex.   
      
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