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Chapter 9. Memory and Stacks > Register Review
9.6. Register Review
So far we have seen and used general purpose CPU registers:
EAX (among its specific uses are to contain function return values and the lower part of a multiplication result)
EBX
ECX (among its specific uses is a loop counter)
EDX (among its specific uses is to contain the higher part of a multiplication result if it exceed maximum 32-bit value)