[fpc-pascal]Pascal Tutorial

Jonas Maebe jonas at zeus.rug.ac.be
Mon Jun 10 15:37:07 CEST 2002


On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Aitor SantamarĂ­a wrote:

> Does this mean that in 32bit ALL registers can be used to address
> memory?

On the 80x86 architecture, yes.

> (just making sure, this is an unkown to me feature of 32-bit
> processors).

This has nothing to do with 32bit processors in general, although it also
the case on the PowerPC. The m68k and I think also the Alpha have
separate address registers.


Jonas





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