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Strange Things LINK Knows about 80x86 Processors (1997)
- userbinator 6y agoA follow-up to this article has more explanation about those instructions: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/curious-instructions/ http://www.os2museum.com/wp/curious-instructions/ This is also the post about the ZALLOC instruction that it mentions, where apparently someone who worked on the original P6 describes it: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.arch/-/h6uCzd3QQwUJ?hl=en https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.arch/-/h6uCzd3QQwUJ?hl=...
- Lammy 6y agoTo save anyone else a moment, "LINK" is the Microsoft Visual C++ linker, "LINK.EXE".
- redis_mlc 6y agoThe rumor back in the day was that loadall was added to the 286 for cruise missiles to switch context faster.