Has there ever been any rationale discussion about the amd64 calling convention? I'm curious why the particular registers were chosen for arguments and for callee preservation
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"as you’d [ed: who?] expect"
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Well, that's an extension of the typical "fastcall" convention of DOS/Windows compilers from the 16- and 32-bit eras, at least
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