General-purpose register or memory location. The source operand can be an immediate value, In certain cases the assembler can calculate the data type automatically.Ĭopies the second operand (source) to the first In order to say the compiler about data type,Īssembler supports shorter prefixes as well: If zero is added to a hexadecimal value, it is multiplied by 16, for example: If zero is added to a decimal number it is multiplied by 10, however 10h = 16, so The physical address will be 1234h * 10h + 7890h = 19BD0h. When DS contains value 1234h and SI contains the value 7890h it can be also recordedĪs 1234:7890. The value in segment register (CS, DS, SS, ES) is called a segment,Īnd the value in purpose register (BX, SI, DI, BP) is called an offset. The column by not taking anything from it. You can form all valid combinations by taking only one item from each column or skipping There is an easy way to remember all those possible combinations using this chart: Is calculated by processor to this physical address: 100 * 16 + 30 + 70 + 25 = 1725.īy default DS segment register is used for all modesĮxcept those with BP register, for these SS segment
In simple EMU programs, these areĮxample: Assume that DS = 100, BX = 30, SI = 70.
#CX PROGRAMMER MEMORY MOV INSTRUCTION CODE#
THE CS (code segment) denotes the beginning of the code segment.
Remember that the DS (data segment) register is set to point to the beginning of a 64K segment. Generally the compiler takes care about differenceīetween d8 and d16, and generates the required machine code. Generates the same machine code for both ways.ĭisplacement is a signed value, so it can be both positive or negative. If there are several values, assembler evaluates all values and calculates a single immediate value.ĭisplacement can be inside or outside of the symbols, assembler These combinations are supported (addressing modes):ĭ8 - stays for 8 bit signed immediate displacement (for example: 22, 55h, -1, etc.)ĭ16 - stays for 16 bit signed immediate displacement (for example: 300, 5517h, -259, etc.).ĭisplacement can be a immediate value or offset of a variable, or even both. To access memory we can use these four registers: BX, SI, DI, BP.Ĭombining these registers inside symbols, we can get different memory locations.
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