Learn to Program with Assembly: Foundational Learning for New Programmers

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J. BartlettLearn to Program with Assemblyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8_24

Common x86-64 Instructions

Jonathan Bartlett¹  

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The following commands are given by their instruction family name. For instance, movq, movl, etc. are simply referred to by their family name, mov. Since registers often need to be referred to in the description, we will refer to their 64-bit version, but if you are using a smaller version of the command, you will usually be using the smaller version of the register. For instance, on the mul command, the table describes its function as working with %rax, but mull would be working with %eax instead, and mulw ...