Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/General purpose registers

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The result of the debate was redirect. This has been done. Joyous (talk) 00:54, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] General purpose registers

General purpose registers are adequately described (described better, in fact) in the Proccesor Register article. P0per 00:45, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

• Merge and redirect to Processor register. No VfD is required. Be WP:BOLD. Pburka 00:56, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- It is likely that people might search for this phrase in an encyclopedia. If the Processor Register article does not describe General Purpose Registers and their conventions thoroughly, then the topic would merit its own article. I believe the description in the Processor Register article is not as informative as the current article on the topic. Otherwise, make it a redirect, but not without merging the information into the other article. --Mysidia 01:01, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Actually, the information in the article is incorrect and misleading. The Processor register article is more accurate. Pburka 01:14, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
  • The article on Processor registers misses a point that such registers may be used freely, i.e. the programmer can store data there. The distinction that makes a register general purpose or not is not specifically that it can store both values and addresses. If there is an inaccuracy, then it should be fixed, but having errors does not merit deletion. --Mysidia 01:26, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
    • This is not an accurate definition of GPRs either, I don't believe: firstly, it is not the GPRs only that can be used "freely", secondly, the distinction between the kinds of registers as listed in Processor register (GPR vs FPR vs IR, etc.) truly is as described. Processor register is used as a general term referring to all kinds of registers so it seems that a more elaborate description of GPRs (e.g. of a size of this article) belongs in Processor register. I would agree that as a term, General purpose register (GPR) in some systems and in modern architectures is used more generically. As GPRs receive wider usage, the GPR topic may evolve. But then, it could be "sub-articled" later, right? So at this point I vote Merge and redirect to Processor register. -- Introvert ^talk 02:00, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect only to Processor register. If someone searches, someone finds, but someone finds better information. Geogre 03:41, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect; agree with Geogre jamesgibbon 12:30, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect: if there is more to say it can fit in in Processor register, but the current article doesn't add anything that needs keeping. Hv 12:36, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

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