March 13, 2011
12:37 a.m.
On 13 March 2011 01:29, Henrik Sperre Johansen <henrik.s.johansen@veloxit.no> wrote:
Den 13.03.2011 01:04, skrev Schwab,Wilhelm K:
Linux certainly allows that mistake. Â What about OSX? As Steph/Markus used Macs today when pushing updates, I'm fairly certain it does :) After all, it's just a prettified BSD. (ok, some other differences as well, like stack alignment requirements etc. :P)
yeah they wanted to use sse2/3 instructions in kernel and system libraries.. so system runs faster .. hehe.. and to do that they found nothing better than enforcing this rule in call convention :)
Cheers, Henry
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