It's 2016 and COMPILERS ARE STILL STUPID

Just analysing a device driver for hardware few months old... as usual, it's as bloated as a week-old dead pig overall but then I come across pieces like this:

shl ecx, 4
mov edx, ecx
shr ecx, 2
xor eax, eax
rep stosd
mov ecx, edx
and ecx, 3
rep stosb

:facepalm:

>>29
Ostensibly. They're really just trying to force people to pay them for the privilege of WRITING SOFTWARE FOR THE HARDWARE THEY ALREADY OWN. These days you can justify just about anything in the name of "security".

>>32
32GET!

I have no need for anything more. As I write this my system has 39 processes and 393MB of RAM used. At this level 64-bit is just bloat. Besides, I like my pointers and integers being the same size.