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From: charles.forsyth@gmail.com (Charles Forsyth)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:06:48 +0000
Subject: [9fans] silly 6a question
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/sys/doc/asm.ms

Some instructions use
.CW O
(`octword') for 128-bit values, where the processor handbook
variously uses
.CW O
or
.CW DQ .
The assembler also consistently uses
.CW PL
for `packed long' in
XMM instructions, instead of
.CW Q ,
.CW DQ
or
.CW PI .

MOVO seems to be available.

On 27 November 2011 21:01, erik quanstrom <quanstro at quanstro.net> wrote:
> is there any way without resorting to machine code to generate
> the (intel-named)
>
> ? ? ? ?MOVDQ ? (AX), X0 ? ? ? ?// move 16-bytes into X0
>
> by the way, it's easy to get the upper double-quad of X0 from acid
> ? ? ? ?acid: *X0+8\Y
>
> (groans from the back?) ?probablly not. ?you already knew that.
>
> - erik
>
>