Chapter 3
Addressing Modes
X86 instructions can have zero or more operands; for example, a return (RET) instruction from a procedure (subroutine) can have no operands or an immediate operand; a negate (NEG) instruction forms the 2s complement of a single operand, NEG AX; a move instruction has two operands MOV AX, BX, which moves the contents of register BX to register AX. In the X86 instruction set, the first operand listed is the destination operand; the second operand listed is the source operand.
The instruction set provides various methods to address operands. The main methods are: register, immediate, direct, register indirect, base, index, and base combined with index. A displacement may also be present. These and other addressing methods ...
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