What about the registers? It isn't that simple.

...point instructions with
   reversed source and destination registers in certain cases.
   Unfortunately, gcc and possibly...

...2) access to the control and status registers is forbidden (the Java solution).

With this...

...the fact that the status and control registers exist.

It's only when a function...

...parameters: the floating point status and control registers. This matters ONLY if the compiler chooses...

...magically" put float[4]s in SSE registers seems like a similar idea.

Please make...

...and returned from functions via the XMM registers.  You could make a specific exception for...

...very efficient, they can be passed in registers for both in and out values (if...

...forth between main memory and the XMM registers...

   Array operations help, but they don't...

...OPTLINK just unhelpfully crashes and dumps its
registers).  This is the one that bites me...