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Subject: Re: Assembler Question

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 23:20:17 01/26/99

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On January 27, 1999 at 02:18:41, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On January 27, 1999 at 01:32:28, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>On January 26, 1999 at 22:38:37, James Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>Once again I show my absolute ignorance of assembly with these two questions:
>>>I am trying to acces the 3rd [+ 4th] byte of a register. How? E.g., what is next
>>>after al, ah, ?
>>>How do I pop something off the stack without moving the stack pointer?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>James
>>
>>1. Use shift instruction. E.g.
>>        shr     eax, 16
>>        mov     byte ptr [esi], al
>>   You can also use rotate instruction (it'll not destruct
>>   other bytes):
>>        ror     eax, 16
>>        mov     byte ptr [esi], al
>>        ror     eax, 16
>>   But if I remember it correctly, rotate is worse than shift
>>   (cannot be executed in parallel) on both Pentium and P6 family.
>
>The shift also sucks, AFAIK.
>
>>2. mov reg32, dword ptr [esp]
>
>esp - 4, right?  But can you say [esp - 4]?  I seem to remember that you can't.

I'm wrong, stack grows toward zero.

bruce



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