From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Faster-than-shift travel
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:30:36 -0400
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S Prasad wrote:

> Hello. Just have a newbie-at-asm question :-)
> int i = 256;
> I'd like to copy the high byte into the low byte, and save the low byte
> as the var 'i'.  Sorta like this:
>
> asm(" movb %%ah, %%al
>     : "=al" (i)
>     : "a" (i)
>     : "%eax");
>
> Can I, using the output registers, just save AL to the variable i, so
> that I just get the low byte?

    I'm not sure of the syntax, but that can be done.  But, unless you are
optimizing for 486 (or 386), there is no point, a shift takes 1 cycle on
Classic Pentium/K6 (and above).

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     -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318