Re: [Tuxnes-devel] more help w/ asm

[Jim U. <ji...@3e...>]

At 10:45am on 2001 April 11, Rigel did write:
> Hi again,
> All right, I have another one.  What's the difference between, say:
> leal	0(%edi),%ebx
> and,
> movl	0(%edi),%ebx.
> 
> This is my guess.  leal loads value held in mem loc edi into ebx, and movl loads value of mem loc held in edi to ebx.  If you understand that, am I right?
Yes, although for "leal" I think you mean "register edi".  The leal is
equivalent to movl %edi,%ebx.  [At least, I'm 99.9% sure
there isn't any difference.]

Note also that leal 3(%esi),%esi and addl 3,%esi are
used interchangably in table.x86, which can be a little
confusing.

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