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32/64-Bit 80x86 Assembly Language Architecture
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32/64-Bit 80x86 Assembly Language Architecture

by James Leiterman
August 2005
Intermediate to advanced
545 pages
9h 35m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Chapter 10. Branching

The processor's instruction pointer is just that — a pointer to the instruction that is about to be executed. This register is the RIP in 64-bit, EIP in Protected Mode, and IP in Real Mode. It behaves very similarly to that of a CD player. You can only read one data stream at a time. To read elsewhere, you have to move the pointer to the new location to read. (A better visualization would be a record player with its needle that cannot skip around.)

The only way to read the value of the instruction pointer is to call a function with the CALL instruction and then read the value on the stack where you had been. There is no MOV EAX,EIP instruction.

There are four primary methods that can be used to change the position of the processor's ...

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