Author: Bo Persson
Date: 02:01:54 07/04/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 19:20:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >The "instruction width" on the X86 is pretty much irrelevant. One byte up >for instructions. I have no idea what the longest instruction is on the X86 >as I don't count the bytes although I'm sure I could find out. Theoretically there is no limit, because you can have multiple redundant prefix bytes (lock, segment override, operand size override, address size override, :-). You will get a bad-instruction interrupt if the decoder hasn't got a completed instruction after 10 bytes. Bo Persson bop2@telia.com
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