RDTSC intrinsic takes TSC register as an argument

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Since Jul 14, 2026.

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This is probably a more general problem than just RDTSC, but I noticed that RDTSC lifts to: eax, edx = _rdtsc(tsc). Hardcoded register operands like that should probably just be hardcoded, making it eax, edx = _rdtsc(). Otherwise, tsc should be marked as a system register so it doesn't propagate as an argument.

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