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| <h4 class="subsection">9.15.9 Handling of Jump Instructions</h4> |
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| <p>Jump instructions are always optimized to use the smallest possible |
| displacements. This is accomplished by using byte (8-bit) displacement |
| jumps whenever the target is sufficiently close. If a byte displacement |
| is insufficient a long displacement is used. We do not support |
| word (16-bit) displacement jumps in 32-bit mode (i.e. prefixing the jump |
| instruction with the ‘<samp>data16</samp>’ instruction prefix), since the 80386 |
| insists upon masking ‘<samp>%eip</samp>’ to 16 bits after the word displacement |
| is added. (See also see <a href="i386_002dArch.html#i386_002dArch">i386-Arch</a>) |
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| <p>Note that the ‘<samp>jcxz</samp>’, ‘<samp>jecxz</samp>’, ‘<samp>loop</samp>’, ‘<samp>loopz</samp>’, |
| ‘<samp>loope</samp>’, ‘<samp>loopnz</samp>’ and ‘<samp>loopne</samp>’ instructions only come in byte |
| displacements, so that if you use these instructions (<code>gcc</code> does |
| not use them) you may get an error message (and incorrect code). The AT&T |
| 80386 assembler tries to get around this problem by expanding ‘<samp>jcxz foo</samp>’ |
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| <pre class="smallexample"> jcxz cx_zero |
| jmp cx_nonzero |
| cx_zero: jmp foo |
| cx_nonzero: |
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