Re: Intel Assembly error
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Joseph Carter wrote:
> I do not know if there is a way to access the rest of EAX when accessing
> AX, AL, etc. Not sure how endianness applies to EAX offhand (I've been up
> a whole 10 minutes) but given 0x12345678 in EAX, AX may contain 0x5678
> which is where the confusion comes from.
It is this way. AX ist the low part of EAX (Since eax and ax shall
make the same for values less then 2^16.) And there is no direct way to
address to higher 16 Bits. But as a shr eax,16 need only one cycle it is
not that serious.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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