darshanvora Posted July 27, 2005 Report Posted July 27, 2005 Hello all, Can any one tell me what is the difference between Software Registers and Hardware Registers? Darshan Quote
IrishEyes Posted July 27, 2005 Report Posted July 27, 2005 Welcome!Sounds like a question for nemo or alex, eh? Hopefully one of them will see this soon.Enjoy the rest of the forums though!! Quote
C1ay Posted July 27, 2005 Report Posted July 27, 2005 Hello all, Can any one tell me what is the difference between Software Registers and Hardware Registers? DarshanWelcome to Hypography. I'm not sure what context your question refers to but I assume you mean processor registers. All processors have a certain number of hardwired registers built in which are hardware registers. Some architectures like RISC also use virtual registers which I think you are referring to as software registers. Here's a white paper on the Itanium register stack that may help. Quote
IrishEyes Posted July 27, 2005 Report Posted July 27, 2005 DUH!And C1ay will surely see this, so ... ;) Quote
darshanvora Posted July 28, 2005 Author Report Posted July 28, 2005 I had this white paper with me, but it's not too useful for me, if you can give me more details on the same question. The registers which i am talking of is independent of the processor architecture. Quote
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