CHAPTER 4
Basic Instructions
This chapter covers instructions used to copy data from one location to another and instructions used for integer arithmetic. It specifies what types of operands are allowed for the various instructions. After studying this chapter you will know how to copy data between memory and CPU registers, and between two registers. You will also know how to use 80×86 addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division instructions, and how execution of these instructions affects flags. You will know some of the details of how the assembler encodes 80×86 instructions for execution.
4.2 Integer Addition and Subtraction Instructions
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