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| ====== Addressing Modes in Instructions ====== | ====== Addressing Modes in Instructions ====== | ||
| - | Addressing mode specifies how the processor reaches the data in the memory. x86 architecture implements immediate, direct and indirect memory addressing. Indirect addressing can use a single or two registers and a constant to calculate the final address. The addressing mode takes the name of the registers used. The 32-bit mode makes the choice of the register for addressing more flexible and enhances addressing with the possibility of scaling: multiplying one register by a small constant. In 64-bit mode, addressing relative to the instruction pointer was added for easy relocation of programs in memory. In this chapter, we will focus on the details of all addressing modes in 16, 32 and 64-bit processors. | + | Addressing mode specifies how the processor reaches the data in the memory. |
| In each addressing mode, we are using the simple examples with the mov instruction. The move instruction copies data from the source operand to the destination operand. The order of the operands in instructions is similar to that of high-level languages. The left operand is the destination, | In each addressing mode, we are using the simple examples with the mov instruction. The move instruction copies data from the source operand to the destination operand. The order of the operands in instructions is similar to that of high-level languages. The left operand is the destination, | ||
| <code asm> | <code asm> | ||
| mov destination, | mov destination, | ||
| </ | </ | ||
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| + | Calculating the addresses for control transfer instructions, | ||
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| ===== Immediate addressing ===== | ===== Immediate addressing ===== | ||
| The immediate argument is a constant encoded as part of the instruction. This means that this value is encoded in a code section of the program and can't be modified during program execution. | The immediate argument is a constant encoded as part of the instruction. This means that this value is encoded in a code section of the program and can't be modified during program execution. | ||
