Subject: Re: assembly question
To: Alonso Bayona <alonso_bayona@hotmail.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/06/2002 19:56:49
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:36:19AM +0000, Alonso Bayona wrote:
> I was trying to count the number of bytes each instruction requires but the
> thing is that I don't know exactly what platform this assembly code was
> compiled on. I have searched the web and found that Alpha assembler is the
> one that resembles this code the most, but there are certain variations.
> Maybe you could help me out or point me in the rigth direction. Here are
> three lines which I can't count:
>
> movl $1,-12(%ebp)
>
> incl %esi
>
> leal (%edx,%eax),%esi
This is not Alpha asm code. It's i386.
Those instructions do:
Move the immediate value 1 into the memory location -12(%ebp).
Increment the %esi register by one.
Load the effective address (%edx,%eax) into the %esi register.
(Sorry, I don't program in x86 much, so I don't know specifically
what addressing mode that insn is using.)
i386 instructions are variable-length, so the number of bytes required for
each one varies with each instruction and the operands. Alpha instructions
have a fixed-length of 4 bytes.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>