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Re: IA32: printing FP register variables



> Then the scan code sees that there are no empty registers, so the eighth
> register is the bottom of the stack.  The IA32 FPU itself uses this logic --
> if you push something on the stack such that TOP gets incremented to point
> to a non-empty value, you get a stack overflow.

Right --- of course.  That would work.  So we could use bottom-relative
register numbers.
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