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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> @@ -221,7 +221,6 @@
>>         push    %es
>>         push    %esi
>>         push    %edi
>> -       push    %ecx
>
>[...etc...]
>
>what about using pushad/popad?

It preserves %eax, which you usually want to change to return a value in.
The value could be stored on the stack, but would lose 3 of the bytes
saved by using pushal/popal.  It would also require too many changes to
the arg offsets for a quick fix.

Bruce