In about 15 years of Assembly development and reverse engineering software, I encountered these instructions exactly once, and that was in the college. However, it would be right to mention them, for a few reasons:
- Instructions like AAM and AAD may sometimes be used as a smaller variant of multiplication and division, since they allow immediate operand. They're smaller as they allow generation of smaller code due to their encoding.
- Sequences like AAD 0 (which is division by zero) may be used as an exception trigger in certain protection schemes.
- Not mentioning them would be historically wrong.
Decimal arithmetic instructions are illegal on 64-bit platforms.
First of all, what is BCD? It is Binary coded decimal ...
