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Once a compiler must resort to register spilling, any advantage of maintainingmultiple accumulators will most likely be lost.

The %rip register on x86-64 is a special-purpose register that always holds the memory address of the next instruction to execute in the program's code segment.

• %rax: return value• %rsp: stack pointer• %rdi: 1st argument• %rsi: 2nd argument• %rdx: 3rd argument• %rcx: 4th argument• %r8: 5th argument• %r9: 6th argument

To manage a variable-size stack frame, x86-64 code uses register %rbp to serveas a frame pointer

convention, registers %rbx, %rbp, and %r12–%r15 are classified as callee-saved registers. When procedure P calls procedure Q, Q must preserve the valuesof these registers, ensuring that they have the same values when Q returns to P asthey did when Q was called

The different shift instructions can specify the shift amount either asan immediate value or with the single-byte register %cl.

As with themov instructions, the two operands cannot both be memory locations.

This operand can be either a register ora memory location.

The destination operand must be a register.

The ability of the leaq instruction to perform addition and limited forms ofmultiplication proves useful when compiling simple arithmetic expressions suchas this example.

local variables such as x are often kept in registers rather thanstored in memory locations. Register access is much faster than memory access.

One important feature is that memoryreferences in x86-64 are always given with quad word registers, such as %rax, evenif the operand is a byte, single word, or double word.

logicallybe named movzlq, but this instruction does not exist. Instead, this type of datamovement can be implemented using a movl instruction having a register as thedestination. This technique takes advantage of the property that an instructiongenerating a 4-byte value with a register as the destination will fill the upper 4bytes with zeros.

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in June 1955 he wrote his final report, “Sequences with Randomness Properties”—which would basically become the foundational document of the theory of shift register sequences.

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