#412 and op - byte qualifier

[Anonymous]

Should the and op support a byte qualifier?

db 0x83, 0xE4, 0xF0
; $ ndisasm output
; 00000000 83E4F0 and sp,byte -0x10

and sp, BYTE -0x10
; $ ndisasm output
; 00000003 83E400 and sp,byte +0x0

;----------------------------------------------------------

and sp, -0x10
; $ ndisasm output
; 00000006 81E4F0FF and sp,0xfff0

[Nobody/Anonymous]

almost forgot..

$ nasm -v
NASM version 2.05rc4 compiled on Oct 14 2008

$ uname -a
Linux archie 2.6.27-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 12 15:16:25 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

cheers! /robin

[H. Peter Anvin]

Good catch. I fixed this and tagged 2.05rc5.

[H. Peter Anvin]

This item has been resolved; the fix has been checked into git (http://repo.or.cz/w/nasm.git) and will be in the next release.
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