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| <a name="Instruction-Naming"></a> |
| <h4 class="subsection">9.15.4 Instruction Naming</h4> |
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| <a name="index-i386-instruction-naming"></a> |
| <a name="index-instruction-naming_002c-i386"></a> |
| <a name="index-x86_002d64-instruction-naming"></a> |
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| <p>Instruction mnemonics are suffixed with one character modifiers which |
| specify the size of operands. The letters ‘<samp>b</samp>’, ‘<samp>w</samp>’, ‘<samp>l</samp>’ |
| and ‘<samp>q</samp>’ specify byte, word, long and quadruple word operands. If |
| no suffix is specified by an instruction then <code>as</code> tries to |
| fill in the missing suffix based on the destination register operand |
| (the last one by convention). Thus, ‘<samp>mov %ax, %bx</samp>’ is equivalent |
| to ‘<samp>movw %ax, %bx</samp>’; also, ‘<samp>mov $1, %bx</samp>’ is equivalent to |
| ‘<samp>movw $1, bx</samp>’. Note that this is incompatible with the AT&T Unix |
| assembler which assumes that a missing mnemonic suffix implies long |
| operand size. (This incompatibility does not affect compiler output |
| since compilers always explicitly specify the mnemonic suffix.) |
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| <p>Almost all instructions have the same names in AT&T and Intel format. |
| There are a few exceptions. The sign extend and zero extend |
| instructions need two sizes to specify them. They need a size to |
| sign/zero extend <em>from</em> and a size to zero extend <em>to</em>. This |
| is accomplished by using two instruction mnemonic suffixes in AT&T |
| syntax. Base names for sign extend and zero extend are |
| ‘<samp>movs…</samp>’ and ‘<samp>movz…</samp>’ in AT&T syntax (‘<samp>movsx</samp>’ |
| and ‘<samp>movzx</samp>’ in Intel syntax). The instruction mnemonic suffixes |
| are tacked on to this base name, the <em>from</em> suffix before the |
| <em>to</em> suffix. Thus, ‘<samp>movsbl %al, %edx</samp>’ is AT&T syntax for |
| “move sign extend <em>from</em> %al <em>to</em> %edx.” Possible suffixes, |
| thus, are ‘<samp>bl</samp>’ (from byte to long), ‘<samp>bw</samp>’ (from byte to word), |
| ‘<samp>wl</samp>’ (from word to long), ‘<samp>bq</samp>’ (from byte to quadruple word), |
| ‘<samp>wq</samp>’ (from word to quadruple word), and ‘<samp>lq</samp>’ (from long to |
| quadruple word). |
| </p> |
| <a name="index-encoding-options_002c-i386"></a> |
| <a name="index-encoding-options_002c-x86_002d64"></a> |
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| <p>Different encoding options can be specified via optional mnemonic |
| suffix. ‘<samp>.s</samp>’ suffix swaps 2 register operands in encoding when |
| moving from one register to another. ‘<samp>.d8</samp>’ or ‘<samp>.d32</samp>’ suffix |
| prefers 8bit or 32bit displacement in encoding. |
| </p> |
| <a name="index-conversion-instructions_002c-i386"></a> |
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| <a name="index-conversion-instructions_002c-x86_002d64"></a> |
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| <p>The Intel-syntax conversion instructions |
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| <ul> |
| <li> ‘<samp>cbw</samp>’ — sign-extend byte in ‘<samp>%al</samp>’ to word in ‘<samp>%ax</samp>’, |
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| </li><li> ‘<samp>cwde</samp>’ — sign-extend word in ‘<samp>%ax</samp>’ to long in ‘<samp>%eax</samp>’, |
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| </li><li> ‘<samp>cwd</samp>’ — sign-extend word in ‘<samp>%ax</samp>’ to long in ‘<samp>%dx:%ax</samp>’, |
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| </li><li> ‘<samp>cdq</samp>’ — sign-extend dword in ‘<samp>%eax</samp>’ to quad in ‘<samp>%edx:%eax</samp>’, |
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| </li><li> ‘<samp>cdqe</samp>’ — sign-extend dword in ‘<samp>%eax</samp>’ to quad in ‘<samp>%rax</samp>’ |
| (x86-64 only), |
| |
| </li><li> ‘<samp>cqo</samp>’ — sign-extend quad in ‘<samp>%rax</samp>’ to octuple in |
| ‘<samp>%rdx:%rax</samp>’ (x86-64 only), |
| </li></ul> |
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| <p>are called ‘<samp>cbtw</samp>’, ‘<samp>cwtl</samp>’, ‘<samp>cwtd</samp>’, ‘<samp>cltd</samp>’, ‘<samp>cltq</samp>’, and |
| ‘<samp>cqto</samp>’ in AT&T naming. <code>as</code> accepts either naming for these |
| instructions. |
| </p> |
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| <a name="index-call-instructions_002c-x86_002d64"></a> |
| <p>Far call/jump instructions are ‘<samp>lcall</samp>’ and ‘<samp>ljmp</samp>’ in |
| AT&T syntax, but are ‘<samp>call far</samp>’ and ‘<samp>jump far</samp>’ in Intel |
| convention. |
| </p> |
| <a name="AT_0026T-Mnemonic-versus-Intel-Mnemonic"></a> |
| <h4 class="subsection">9.15.5 AT&T Mnemonic versus Intel Mnemonic</h4> |
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| <a name="index-i386-mnemonic-compatibility"></a> |
| <a name="index-mnemonic-compatibility_002c-i386"></a> |
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| <p><code>as</code> supports assembly using Intel mnemonic. |
| <code>.intel_mnemonic</code> selects Intel mnemonic with Intel syntax, and |
| <code>.att_mnemonic</code> switches back to the usual AT&T mnemonic with AT&T |
| syntax for compatibility with the output of <code>gcc</code>. |
| Several x87 instructions, ‘<samp>fadd</samp>’, ‘<samp>fdiv</samp>’, ‘<samp>fdivp</samp>’, |
| ‘<samp>fdivr</samp>’, ‘<samp>fdivrp</samp>’, ‘<samp>fmul</samp>’, ‘<samp>fsub</samp>’, ‘<samp>fsubp</samp>’, |
| ‘<samp>fsubr</samp>’ and ‘<samp>fsubrp</samp>’, are implemented in AT&T System V/386 |
| assembler with different mnemonics from those in Intel IA32 specification. |
| <code>gcc</code> generates those instructions with AT&T mnemonic. |
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