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brigade on March 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: x86 Assembly Primer for C Programmers

To be fair, the System V document is AMD's convention and it was Microsoft that decided to design an incompatible (and worse) ABI.

anaisbetts on March 26, 2012 [–]

Sucks. I wonder if AMD wrote that later, after Microsoft had made up their own and were dependent on it. Dave Cutler was involved in amd64 really early in the process of Clawhammer (mainly because he hates Intel with a passion!)

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