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This appendix provides a complete list of the machine instructions which NASM will assemble, and a short description of the function of each one.
It is not intended to be exhaustive documentation on the fine details of
the instructions' function, such as which exceptions they can trigger: for
such documentation, you should go to Intel's Web site,
.
Instead, this appendix is intended primarily to provide documentation on
the way the instructions may be used within NASM. For example, looking up
will tell you that NASM allows
or to be
specified as an optional second argument to the
instruction, to enforce which of the two
possible counter registers should be used if the default is not the one
desired.
The instructions are not quite listed in alphabetical order, since groups of instructions with similar functions are lumped together in the same entry. Most of them don't move very far from their alphabetic position because of this.
The instruction descriptions in this appendix specify their operands using the following notation:
reg8 denotes an 8-bit general
purpose register, reg16 denotes a 16-bit general
purpose register, and reg32 a 32-bit one.
fpureg denotes one of the eight FPU stack
registers, mmxreg denotes one of the eight 64-bit
MMX registers, and segreg denotes a segment
register. In addition, some registers (such as
AL , DX or
ECX ) may be specified explicitly.
imm denotes a generic
immediate operand. imm8 ,
imm16 and imm32 are
used when the operand is intended to be a specific size. For some of these
instructions, NASM needs an explicit specifier: for example,
ADD ESP,16 could be interpreted as either
ADD r/m32,imm32 or
ADD r/m32,imm8 . NASM chooses the former by
default, and so you must specify ADD ESP,BYTE 16
for the latter.
mem denotes a generic
memory reference; mem8 ,
mem16 , mem32 ,
mem64 and mem80 are
used when the operand needs to be a specific size. Again, a specifier is
needed in some cases: DEC [address] is ambiguous
and will be rejected by NASM. You must specify
DEC BYTE [address] ,
DEC WORD [address] or
DEC DWORD [address] instead.
MOV instruction allows a memory address to be
specified without allowing the normal range of register
combinations and effective address processing. This is denoted by
memoffs8 , memoffs16 and
memoffs32 .
r/m8 is a shorthand for
reg8/mem8 ; similarly
r/m16 and r/m32 .
r/m64 is MMX-related, and is a shorthand for
mmxreg/mem64 .
This appendix also provides the opcodes which NASM will generate for each form of each instruction. The opcodes are listed in the following way:
3F , indicates a fixed
byte containing that number.
+r , such as
C8+r , indicates that one of the operands to the
instruction is a register, and the `register value' of that register should
be added to the hex number to produce the generated byte. For example, EDX
has register value 2, so the code C8+r , when the
register operand is EDX, generates the hex byte
CA . Register values for specific registers are
given in section B.2.1.
+cc , such as
40+cc , indicates that the instruction name has a
condition code suffix, and the numeric representation of the condition code
should be added to the hex number to produce the generated byte. For
example, the code 40+cc , when the instruction
contains the NE condition, generates the hex byte
45 . Condition codes and their numeric
representations are given in section B.2.2.
/2 ,
indicates that one of the operands to the instruction is a memory address
or register (denoted mem or
r/m , with an optional size). This is to be
encoded as an effective address, with a ModR/M byte, an optional SIB byte,
and an optional displacement, and the spare (register) field of the ModR/M
byte should be the digit given (which will be from 0 to 7, so it fits in
three bits). The encoding of effective addresses is given in
section B.2.5.
/r combines the above two: it
indicates that one of the operands is a memory address or
r/m , and another is a register, and that an
effective address should be generated with the spare (register) field in
the ModR/M byte being equal to the `register value' of the register
operand. The encoding of effective addresses is given in
section B.2.5; register values are given in
section B.2.1.
ib , iw
and id indicate that one of the operands to the
instruction is an immediate value, and that this is to be encoded as a
byte, little-endian word or little-endian doubleword respectively.
rb , rw
and rd indicate that one of the operands to the
instruction is an immediate value, and that the difference between
this value and the address of the end of the instruction is to be encoded
as a byte, word or doubleword respectively. Where the form
rw/rd appears, it indicates that either
rw or rd should be used
according to whether assembly is being performed in
BITS 16 or BITS 32
state respectively.
ow and od
indicate that one of the operands to the instruction is a reference to the
contents of a memory address specified as an immediate value: this encoding
is used in some forms of the MOV instruction in
place of the standard effective-address mechanism. The displacement is
encoded as a word or doubleword. Again, ow/od
denotes that ow or od
should be chosen according to the BITS setting.
o16 and
o32 indicate that the given form of the
instruction should be assembled with operand size 16 or 32 bits. In other
words, o16 indicates a
66 prefix in BITS 32
state, but generates no code in BITS 16 state;
and o32 indicates a 66
prefix in BITS 16 state but generates nothing in
BITS 32 .
a16 and
a32 , similarly to o16
and o32 , indicate the address size of the given
form of the instruction. Where this does not match the
BITS setting, a 67
prefix is required.
Where an instruction requires a register value, it is already implicit in the encoding of the rest of the instruction what type of register is intended: an 8-bit general-purpose register, a segment register, a debug register, an MMX register, or whatever. Therefore there is no problem with registers of different types sharing an encoding value.
The encodings for the various classes of register are:
AL is 0,
CL is 1, DL is 2,
BL is 3, AH is 4,
CH is 5, DH is 6, and
BH is 7.
AX is 0,
CX is 1, DX is 2,
BX is 3, SP is 4,
BP is 5, SI is 6, and
DI is 7.
EAX is 0,
ECX is 1, EDX is 2,
EBX is 3, ESP is 4,
EBP is 5, ESI is 6, and
EDI is 7.
ES is 0,
CS is 1, SS is 2,
DS is 3, FS is 4, and
GS is 5.
ST0 is 0,
ST1 is 1, ST2 is 2,
ST3 is 3, ST4 is 4,
ST5 is 5, ST6 is 6, and
ST7 is 7.
MM0 is 0,
MM1 is 1, MM2 is 2,
MM3 is 3, MM4 is 4,
MM5 is 5, MM6 is 6, and
MM7 is 7.
CR0 is 0,
CR2 is 2, CR3 is 3, and
CR4 is 4.
DR0 is 0,
DR1 is 1, DR2 is 2,
DR3 is 3, DR6 is 6, and
DR7 is 7.
TR3 is 3,
TR4 is 4, TR5 is 5,
TR6 is 6, and TR7 is 7.
(Note that wherever a register name contains a number, that number is also the register value for that register.)
The available condition codes are given here, along with their numeric representations as part of opcodes. Many of these condition codes have synonyms, so several will be listed at a time.
In the following descriptions, the word `either', when applied to two possible trigger conditions, is used to mean `either or both'. If `either but not both' is meant, the phrase `exactly one of' is used.
O is 0 (trigger if the overflow flag is set);
NO is 1.
B , C and
NAE are 2 (trigger if the carry flag is set);
AE , NB and
NC are 3.
E and Z are 4
(trigger if the zero flag is set); NE and
NZ are 5.
BE and NA are 6
(trigger if either of the carry or zero flags is set);
A and NBE are 7.
S is 8 (trigger if the sign flag is set);
NS is 9.
P and PE are 10
(trigger if the parity flag is set); NP and
PO are 11.
L and NGE are 12
(trigger if exactly one of the sign and overflow flags is set);
GE and NL are 13.
LE and NG are 14
(trigger if either the zero flag is set, or exactly one of the sign and
overflow flags is set); G and
NLE are 15.
Note that in all cases, the sense of a condition code may be reversed by changing the low bit of the numeric representation.
For details of when an instruction sets each of the status flags, see the individual instruction, plus the Status Flags reference in section B.2.4
The condition predicates for SSE comparison instructions are the codes used as part of the opcode, to determine what form of comparison is being carried out. In each case, the imm8 value is the final byte of the opcode encoding, and the predicate is the code used as part of the mnemonic for the instruction (equivalent to the "cc" in an integer instruction that used a condition code). The instructions that use this will give details of what the various mnemonics are, this table is used to help you work out details of what is happening.
Predi- imm8 Description Relation where: Emula- Result QNaN
cate Encod- A Is 1st Operand tion if NaN Signal
ing B Is 2nd Operand Operand Invalid
EQ 000B equal A = B False No
LT 001B less-than A < B False Yes
LE 010B less-than- A <= B False Yes
or-equal
--- ---- greater A > B Swap False Yes
than Operands,
Use LT
--- ---- greater- A >= B Swap False Yes
than-or-equal Operands,
Use LE
UNORD 011B unordered A, B = Unordered True No
NEQ 100B not-equal A != B True No
NLT 101B not-less- NOT(A < B) True Yes
than
NLE 110B not-less- NOT(A <= B) True Yes
than-or-
equal
--- ---- not-greater NOT(A > B) Swap True Yes
than Operands,
Use NLT
--- ---- not-greater NOT(A >= B) Swap True Yes
than- Operands,
or-equal Use NLE
ORD 111B ordered A , B = Ordered False No
The unordered relationship is true when at least one of the two values being compared is a NaN or in an unsupported format.
Note that the comparisons which are listed as not having a predicate or
encoding can only be achieved through software emulation, as described in
the "emulation" column. Note in particular that an instruction such as
is not the same as
, as, unlike with the
instruction, it has to take into account the
possibility of one operand containing a NaN or an unsupported numeric
format.
The status flags provide some information about the result of the
arithmetic instructions. This information can be used by conditional
instructions (such a and
) as well as by some of the other
instructions (such as and
).
There are 6 status flags:
CF - Carry flag.
Set if an arithmetic operation generates a carry or a borrow out of the most-significant bit of the result; cleared otherwise. This flag indicates an overflow condition for unsigned-integer arithmetic. It is also used in multiple-precision arithmetic.
PF - Parity flag.
Set if the least-significant byte of the result contains an even number of 1 bits; cleared otherwise.
AF - Adjust flag.
Set if an arithmetic operation generates a carry or a borrow out of bit 3 of the result; cleared otherwise. This flag is used in binary-coded decimal (BCD) arithmetic.
ZF - Zero flag.
Set if the result is zero; cleared otherwise.
SF - Sign flag.
Set equal to the most-significant bit of the result, which is the sign bit of a signed integer. (0 indicates a positive value and 1 indicates a negative value.)
OF - Overflow flag.
Set if the integer result is too large a positive number or too small a negative number (excluding the sign-bit) to fit in the destination operand; cleared otherwise. This flag indicates an overflow condition for signed-integer (two's complement) arithmetic.
An effective address is encoded in up to three parts: a ModR/M byte, an optional SIB byte, and an optional byte, word or doubleword displacement field.
The ModR/M byte consists of three fields: the
field, ranging from 0 to 3, in the upper two
bits of the byte, the field, ranging from 0
to 7, in the lower three bits, and the spare (register) field in the middle
(bit 3 to bit 5). The spare field is not relevant to the effective address
being encoded, and either contains an extension to the instruction opcode
or the register value of another operand.
The ModR/M system can be used to encode a direct register reference
rather than a memory access. This is always done by setting the
field to 3 and the
field to the register value of the register
in question (it must be a general-purpose register, and the size of the
register must already be implicit in the encoding of the rest of the
instruction). In this case, the SIB byte and displacement field are both
absent.
In 16-bit addressing mode (either with
no prefix, or
with a
prefix), the SIB byte is never used. The general rules for
and (there is
an exception, given below) are:
mod field gives the length of the
displacement field: 0 means no displacement, 1 means one byte, and 2 means
two bytes.
r/m field encodes the combination of
registers to be added to the displacement to give the accessed address: 0
means BX+SI , 1 means
BX+DI , 2 means BP+SI , 3
means BP+DI , 4 means SI
only, 5 means DI only, 6 means
BP only, and 7 means BX
only.
However, there is a special case:
mod is 0 and r/m
is 6, the effective address encoded is not [BP]
as the above rules would suggest, but instead
[disp16] : the displacement field is present and
is two bytes long, and no registers are added to the displacement.
Therefore the effective address cannot be
encoded as efficiently as ; so if you code
in a program, NASM adds a notional 8-bit
zero displacement, and sets to 1,
to 6, and the one-byte displacement field to
0.
In 32-bit addressing mode (either with
a prefix, or
with no prefix) the general rules (again,
there are exceptions) for and
are:
mod field gives the length of the
displacement field: 0 means no displacement, 1 means one byte, and 2 means
four bytes.
ESP , the r/m field
gives its register value, and the SIB byte is absent. If the
r/m field is 4 (which would encode
ESP ), the SIB byte is present and gives the
combination and scaling of registers to be added to the displacement.
If the SIB byte is present, it describes the combination of registers
(an optional base register, and an optional index register scaled by
multiplication by 1, 2, 4 or 8) to be added to the displacement. The SIB
byte is divided into the field, in the top
two bits, the field in the next three, and
the field in the bottom three. The general
rules are:
base field encodes the register value of
the base register.
index field encodes the register value of
the index register, unless it is 4, in which case no index register is used
(so ESP cannot be used as an index register).
scale field encodes the multiplier by
which the index register is scaled before adding it to the base and
displacement: 0 encodes a multiplier of 1, 1 encodes 2, 2 encodes 4 and 3
encodes 8.
The exceptions to the 32-bit encoding rules are:
mod is 0 and r/m
is 5, the effective address encoded is not [EBP]
as the above rules would suggest, but instead
[disp32] : the displacement field is present and
is four bytes long, and no registers are added to the displacement.
mod is 0, r/m is
4 (meaning the SIB byte is present) and base is
4, the effective address encoded is not
[EBP+index] as the above rules would suggest, but
instead [disp32+index] : the displacement field is
present and is four bytes long, and there is no base register (but the
index register is still processed in the normal way).
Given along with each instruction in this appendix is a set of flags, denoting the type of the instruction. The types are as follows:
8086 , 186 ,
286 , 386 ,
486 , PENT and
P6 denote the lowest processor type that supports
the instruction. Most instructions run on all processors above the given
type; those that do not are documented. The Pentium II contains no
additional instructions beyond the P6 (Pentium Pro); from the point of view
of its instruction set, it can be thought of as a P6 with MMX capability.
3DNOW indicates that the instruction is a
3DNow! one, and will run on the AMD K6-2 and later processors. ATHLON
extensions to the 3DNow! instruction set are documented as such.
CYRIX indicates that the instruction is
specific to Cyrix processors, for example the extra MMX instructions in the
Cyrix extended MMX instruction set.
FPU indicates that the instruction is a
floating-point one, and will only run on machines with a coprocessor
(automatically including 486DX, Pentium and above).
KATMAI indicates that the instruction was
introduced as part of the Katmai New Instruction set. These instructions
are available on the Pentium III and later processors. Those which are not
specifically SSE instructions are also available on the AMD Athlon.
MMX indicates that the instruction is an MMX
one, and will run on MMX-capable Pentium processors and the Pentium II.
PRIV indicates that the instruction is a
protected-mode management instruction. Many of these may only be used in
protected mode, or only at privilege level zero.
SSE and SSE2
indicate that the instruction is a Streaming SIMD Extension instruction.
These instructions operate on multiple values in a single operation. SSE
was introduced with the Pentium III and SSE2 was introduced with the
Pentium 4.
UNDOC indicates that the instruction is an
undocumented one, and not part of the official Intel Architecture; it may
or may not be supported on any given machine.
WILLAMETTE indicates that the instruction was
introduced as part of the new instruction set in the Pentium 4 and Intel
Xeon processors. These instructions are also known as SSE2 instructions.
AAA , AAS , AAM , AAD : ASCII AdjustmentsAAA ; 37 [8086]
AAS ; 3F [8086]
AAD ; D5 0A [8086] AAD imm ; D5 ib [8086]
AAM ; D4 0A [8086] AAM imm ; D4 ib [8086]
These instructions are used in conjunction with the add, subtract,
multiply and divide instructions to perform binary-coded decimal arithmetic
in unpacked (one BCD digit per byte - easy to translate to and
from , hence the instruction names) form.
There are also packed BCD instructions and
: see section
B.4.57.
AAA (ASCII Adjust After Addition) should be
used after a one-byte ADD instruction whose
destination was the AL register: by means of
examining the value in the low nibble of AL and
also the auxiliary carry flag AF , it determines
whether the addition has overflowed, and adjusts it (and sets the carry
flag) if so. You can add long BCD strings together by doing
ADD /AAA on the low
digits, then doing
ADC /AAA on each
subsequent digit.
AAS (ASCII Adjust AL After Subtraction) works
similarly to AAA , but is for use after
SUB instructions rather than
ADD .
AAM (ASCII Adjust AX After Multiply) is for
use after you have multiplied two decimal digits together and left the
result in AL : it divides
AL by ten and stores the quotient in
AH , leaving the remainder in
AL . The divisor 10 can be changed by specifying
an operand to the instruction: a particularly handy use of this is
AAM 16 , causing the two nibbles in
AL to be separated into
AH and AL .
AAD (ASCII Adjust AX Before Division)
performs the inverse operation to AAM : it
multiplies AH by ten, adds it to
AL , and sets AH to
zero. Again, the multiplier 10 can be changed.
ADC : Add with CarryADC r/m8,reg8 ; 10 /r [8086] ADC r/m16,reg16 ; o16 11 /r [8086] ADC r/m32,reg32 ; o32 11 /r [386]
ADC reg8,r/m8 ; 12 /r [8086] ADC reg16,r/m16 ; o16 13 /r [8086] ADC reg32,r/m32 ; o32 13 /r [386]
ADC r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /2 ib [8086] ADC r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /2 iw [8086] ADC r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /2 id [386]
ADC r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /2 ib [8086] ADC r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /2 ib [386]
ADC AL,imm8 ; 14 ib [8086] ADC AX,imm16 ; o16 15 iw [8086] ADC EAX,imm32 ; o32 15 id [386]
performs integer addition: it adds its two
operands together, plus the value of the carry flag, and leaves the result
in its destination (first) operand. The destination operand can be a
register or a memory location. The source operand can be a register, a
memory location or an immediate value.
The flags are set according to the result of the operation: in
particular, the carry flag is affected and can be used by a subsequent
instruction.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
To add two numbers without also adding the contents of the carry flag,
use (section
B.4.3).
ADD : Add IntegersADD r/m8,reg8 ; 00 /r [8086] ADD r/m16,reg16 ; o16 01 /r [8086] ADD r/m32,reg32 ; o32 01 /r [386]
ADD reg8,r/m8 ; 02 /r [8086] ADD reg16,r/m16 ; o16 03 /r [8086] ADD reg32,r/m32 ; o32 03 /r [386]
ADD r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] ADD r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] ADD r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
ADD r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] ADD r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
ADD AL,imm8 ; 04 ib [8086] ADD AX,imm16 ; o16 05 iw [8086] ADD EAX,imm32 ; o32 05 id [386]
performs integer addition: it adds its two
operands together, and leaves the result in its destination (first)
operand. The destination operand can be a register or a memory location.
The source operand can be a register, a memory location or an immediate
value.
The flags are set according to the result of the operation: in
particular, the carry flag is affected and can be used by a subsequent
instruction.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
ADDPD : ADD Packed Double-Precision FP ValuesADDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F 58 /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
performs addition on each of two packed
double-precision FP value pairs.
dst[0-63] := dst[0-63] + src[0-63], dst[64-127] := dst[64-127] + src[64-127].
The destination is an register. The source
operand can be either an register or a
128-bit memory location.
ADDPS : ADD Packed Single-Precision FP ValuesADDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F 58 /r [KATMAI,SSE]
performs addition on each of four packed
single-precision FP value pairs
dst[0-31] := dst[0-31] + src[0-31], dst[32-63] := dst[32-63] + src[32-63], dst[64-95] := dst[64-95] + src[64-95], dst[96-127] := dst[96-127] + src[96-127].
The destination is an register. The source
operand can be either an register or a
128-bit memory location.
ADDSD : ADD Scalar Double-Precision FP ValuesADDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F 58 /r [KATMAI,SSE]
adds the low double-precision FP values
from the source and destination operands and stores the double-precision FP
result in the destination operand.
dst[0-63] := dst[0-63] + src[0-63], dst[64-127) remains unchanged.
The destination is an register. The source
operand can be either an register or a 64-bit
memory location.
ADDSS : ADD Scalar Single-Precision FP ValuesADDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F 58 /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
adds the low single-precision FP values
from the source and destination operands and stores the single-precision FP
result in the destination operand.
dst[0-31] := dst[0-31] + src[0-31], dst[32-127] remains unchanged.
The destination is an register. The source
operand can be either an register or a 32-bit
memory location.
AND : Bitwise ANDAND r/m8,reg8 ; 20 /r [8086] AND r/m16,reg16 ; o16 21 /r [8086] AND r/m32,reg32 ; o32 21 /r [386]
AND reg8,r/m8 ; 22 /r [8086] AND reg16,r/m16 ; o16 23 /r [8086] AND reg32,r/m32 ; o32 23 /r [386]
AND r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /4 ib [8086] AND r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /4 iw [8086] AND r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /4 id [386]
AND r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /4 ib [8086] AND r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /4 ib [386]
AND AL,imm8 ; 24 ib [8086] AND AX,imm16 ; o16 25 iw [8086] AND EAX,imm32 ; o32 25 id [386]
performs a bitwise AND operation between
its two operands (i.e. each bit of the result is 1 if and only if the
corresponding bits of the two inputs were both 1), and stores the result in
the destination (first) operand. The destination operand can be a register
or a memory location. The source operand can be a register, a memory
location or an immediate value.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The instruction
(see section
B.4.202) performs the same operation on the 64-bit
registers.
ANDNPD : Bitwise Logical AND NOT of Packed Double-Precision FP ValuesANDNPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F 55 /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
inverts the bits of the two
double-precision floating-point values in the destination register, and
then performs a logical AND between the two double-precision floating-point
values in the source operand and the temporary inverted result, storing the
result in the destination register.
dst[0-63] := src[0-63] AND NOT dst[0-63], dst[64-127] := src[64-127] AND NOT dst[64-127].
The destination is an register. The source
operand can be either an register or a
128-bit memory location.
ANDNPS : Bitwise Logical AND NOT of Packed Single-Precision FP ValuesANDNPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F 55 /r [KATMAI,SSE]
inverts the bits of the four
single-precision floating-point values in the destination register, and
then performs a logical AND between the four single-precision
floating-point values in the source operand and the temporary inverted
result, storing the result in the destination register.
dst[0-31] := src[0-31] AND NOT dst[0-31], dst[32-63] := src[32-63] AND NOT dst[32-63], dst[64-95] := src[64-95] AND NOT dst[64-95], dst[96-127] := src[96-127] AND NOT dst[96-127].
The destination is an register. The source
operand can be either an register or a
128-bit memory location.
ANDPD : Bitwise Logical AND For Single FPANDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F 54 /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
performs a bitwise logical AND of the
two double-precision floating point values in the source and destination
operand, and stores the result in the destination register.
dst[0-63] := src[0-63] AND dst[0-63], dst[64-127] := src[64-127] AND dst[64-127].
The destination is an register. The source
operand can be either an register or a
128-bit memory location.
ANDPS : Bitwise Logical AND For Single FPANDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F 54 /r [KATMAI,SSE]
performs a bitwise logical AND of the
four single-precision floating point values in the source and destination
operand, and stores the result in the destination register.
dst[0-31] := src[0-31] AND dst[0-31], dst[32-63] := src[32-63] AND dst[32-63], dst[64-95] := src[64-95] AND dst[64-95], dst[96-127] := src[96-127] AND dst[96-127].
The destination is an register. The source
operand can be either an register or a
128-bit memory location.
ARPL : Adjust RPL Field of SelectorARPL r/m16,reg16 ; 63 /r [286,PRIV]
expects its two word operands to be
segment selectors. It adjusts the (requested
privilege level - stored in the bottom two bits of the selector) field of
the destination (first) operand to ensure that it is no less (i.e. no more
privileged than) the field of the source
operand. The zero flag is set if and only if a change had to be made.
BOUND : Check Array Index against BoundsBOUND reg16,mem ; o16 62 /r [186] BOUND reg32,mem ; o32 62 /r [386]
expects its second operand to point to
an area of memory containing two signed values of the same size as its
first operand (i.e. two words for the 16-bit form; two doublewords for the
32-bit form). It performs two signed comparisons: if the value in the
register passed as its first operand is less than the first of the
in-memory values, or is greater than or equal to the second, it throws a
exception. Otherwise, it does nothing.
BSF , BSR : Bit ScanBSF reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F BC /r [386] BSF reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F BC /r [386]
BSR reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F BD /r [386] BSR reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F BD /r [386]
BSF searches for the least significant set
bit in its source (second) operand, and if it finds one, stores the index
in its destination (first) operand. If no set bit is found, the contents of
the destination operand are undefined. If the source operand is zero, the
zero flag is set.
BSR performs the same function, but searches
from the top instead, so it finds the most significant set bit.
Bit indices are from 0 (least significant) to 15 or 31 (most significant). The destination operand can only be a register. The source operand can be a register or a memory location.
BSWAP : Byte SwapBSWAP reg32 ; o32 0F C8+r [486]
swaps the order of the four bytes of a
32-bit register: bits 0-7 exchange places with bits 24-31, and bits 8-15
swap with bits 16-23. There is no explicit 16-bit equivalent: to byte-swap
, ,
or ,
can be used. When
is used with a 16-bit register, the result
is undefined.
BT , BTC , BTR , BTS : Bit TestBT r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A3 /r [386] BT r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A3 /r [386] BT r/m16,imm8 ; o16 0F BA /4 ib [386] BT r/m32,imm8 ; o32 0F BA /4 ib [386]
BTC r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F BB /r [386] BTC r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F BB /r [386] BTC r/m16,imm8 ; o16 0F BA /7 ib [386] BTC r/m32,imm8 ; o32 0F BA /7 ib [386]
BTR r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B3 /r [386] BTR r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B3 /r [386] BTR r/m16,imm8 ; o16 0F BA /6 ib [386] BTR r/m32,imm8 ; o32 0F BA /6 ib [386]
BTS r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F AB /r [386] BTS r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F AB /r [386] BTS r/m16,imm ; o16 0F BA /5 ib [386] BTS r/m32,imm ; o32 0F BA /5 ib [386]
These instructions all test one bit of their first operand, whose index is given by the second operand, and store the value of that bit into the carry flag. Bit indices are from 0 (least significant) to 15 or 31 (most significant).
In addition to storing the original value of the bit into the carry
flag, also resets (clears) the bit in the
operand itself. sets the bit, and
complements the bit.
does not modify its operands.
The destination can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register or an immediate value.
If the destination operand is a register, the bit offset should be in the range 0-15 (for 16-bit operands) or 0-31 (for 32-bit operands). An immediate value outside these ranges will be taken modulo 16/32 by the processor.
If the destination operand is a memory location, then an immediate bit offset follows the same rules as for a register. If the bit offset is in a register, then it can be anything within the signed range of the register used (ie, for a 32-bit operand, it can be (-2^31) to (2^31 - 1)
CALL : Call SubroutineCALL imm ; E8 rw/rd [8086] CALL imm:imm16 ; o16 9A iw iw [8086] CALL imm:imm32 ; o32 9A id iw [386] CALL FAR mem16 ; o16 FF /3 [8086] CALL FAR mem32 ; o32 FF /3 [386] CALL r/m16 ; o16 FF /2 [8086] CALL r/m32 ; o32 FF /2 [386]
calls a subroutine, by means of pushing
the current instruction pointer () and
optionally as well on the stack, and then
jumping to a given address.
is pushed as well as
if and only if the call is a far call, i.e. a
destination segment address is specified in the instruction. The forms
involving two colon-separated arguments are far calls; so are the
forms.
The immediate near call takes one of two forms
(, determined by the current
segment size limit. For 16-bit operands, you would use
, and for 32-bit operands you would
use . The value passed as an
operand is a relative offset.
You can choose between the two immediate far call forms
() by the use of the
and
keywords: ) or
.
The forms execute a far call by
loading the destination address out of memory. The address loaded consists
of 16 or 32 bits of offset (depending on the operand size), and 16 bits of
segment. The operand size may be overridden using
or
.
The forms execute a near call (within
the same segment), loading the destination address out of memory or out of
a register. The keyword may be specified,
for clarity, in these forms, but is not necessary. Again, operand size can
be overridden using or
.
As a convenience, NASM does not require you to call a far procedure
symbol by coding the cumbersome
, but instead allows the
easier synonym .
The forms given above are near calls;
NASM will accept the keyword (e.g.
), even though it is not
strictly necessary.
CBW , CWD , CDQ , CWDE : Sign ExtensionsCBW ; o16 98 [8086] CWDE ; o32 98 [386]
CWD ; o16 99 [8086] CDQ ; o32 99 [386]
All these instructions sign-extend a short value into a longer one, by replicating the top bit of the original value to fill the extended one.
extends into
by repeating the top bit of
in every bit of .
extends into
. extends
into by
repeating the top bit of throughout
, and extends
into .
CLC , CLD , CLI , CLTS : Clear FlagsCLC ; F8 [8086] CLD ; FC [8086] CLI ; FA [8086] CLTS ; 0F 06 [286,PRIV]
These instructions clear various flags.
clears the carry flag; clears the direction
flag; clears the interrupt flag (thus
disabling interrupts); and clears the
task-switched () flag in
.
To set the carry, direction, or interrupt flags, use the
, and
instructions
(section B.4.301). To invert the carry flag,
use (section
B.4.22).
CLFLUSH : Flush Cache LineCLFLUSH mem ; 0F AE /7 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
invalidates the cache line that
contains the linear address specified by the source operand from all levels
of the processor cache hierarchy (data and instruction). If, at any level
of the cache hierarchy, the line is inconsistent with memory (dirty) it is
written to memory before invalidation. The source operand points to a
byte-sized memory location.
Although is flagged
and above, it may not be present on all
processors which have support, and it may be
supported on other processors; the
instruction (section B.4.34) will return a
bit which indicates support for the
instruction.
CMC : Complement Carry FlagCMC ; F5 [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPSB , CMPSW , CMPSD : Compare StringsCMPSB ; A6 [8086] CMPSW ; o16 A7 [8086] CMPSD ; o32 A7 [386]
compares the byte at
or
with the byte at or
, and sets the flags accordingly. It then
increments or decrements (depending on the direction flag: increments if
the flag is clear, decrements if it is set)
and (or and
).
The registers used are and
if the address size is 16 bits, and
and if it is 32
bits. If you need to use an address size not equal to the current
setting, you can use an explicit
or prefix.
The segment register used to load from or
can be overridden by using a segment
register name as a prefix (for example,
). The use of
for the load from
or cannot be
overridden.
and work
in the same way, but they compare a word or a doubleword instead of a byte,
and increment or decrement the addressing registers by 2 or 4 instead of 1.
The and
prefixes (equivalently, and
) may be used to repeat the instruction up
to (or - again,
the address size chooses which) times until the first unequal or equal byte
is found.
CMPccSD : Scalar Double-Precision FP Compare CMPSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64,imm8 ; F2 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLESD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDSD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; F2 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the low-order
double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccSS : Scalar Single-Precision FP Compare CMPSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32,imm8 ; F3 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLESS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDSS xmm1,xmm2/mem32 ; F3 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the low-order
single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands, and
returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPXCHG , CMPXCHG486 : Compare and ExchangeCMPXCHG r/m8,reg8 ; 0F B0 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F B1 /r [PENT] CMPXCHG r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F B1 /r [PENT]
CMPXCHG486 r/m8,reg8 ; 0F A6 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m16,reg16 ; o16 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC] CMPXCHG486 r/m32,reg32 ; o32 0F A7 /r [486,UNDOC]
These two instructions perform exactly the same operation; however,
apparently some (not all) 486 processors support it under a non-standard
opcode, so NASM provides the undocumented
form to generate the non-standard
opcode.
compares its destination (first)
operand to the value in ,
or (depending on
the operand size of the instruction). If they are equal, it copies its
source (second) operand into the destination and sets the zero flag.
Otherwise, it clears the zero flag and copies the destination register to
AL, AX or EAX.
The destination can be either a register or a memory location. The source is a register.
is intended to be used for atomic
operations in multitasking or multiprocessor environments. To safely update
a value in shared memory, for example, you might load the value into
, load the updated value into
, and then execute the instruction
. If
has not changed since being loaded, it is
updated with your desired new value, and the zero flag is set to let you
know it has worked. (The prefix prevents
another processor doing anything in the middle of this operation: it
guarantees atomicity.) However, if another processor has modified the value
in between your load and your attempted store, the store does not happen,
and you are notified of the failure by a cleared zero flag, so you can go
round and try again.
CMPXCHG8B : Compare and Exchange Eight BytesCMPXCHG8B mem ; 0F C7 /1 [PENT]
This is a larger and more unwieldy version of
: it compares the 64-bit (eight-byte)
value stored at with the value in
. If they are equal, it sets the zero flag
and stores into the memory area. If they
are unequal, it clears the zero flag and stores the memory contents into
.
can be used with the
prefix, to allow atomic execution. This is
useful in multi-processor and multi-tasking environments.
COMISD : Scalar Ordered Double-Precision FP Compare and Set EFLAGSCOMISD xmm1,xmm2/mem64 ; 66 0F 2F /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
compares the low-order double-precision
FP value in the two source operands. ZF, PF and CF are set according to the
result. OF, AF and AF are cleared. The unordered result is returned if
either source is a NaN (QNaN or SNaN).
The destination operand is an register.
The source can be either an register or a
memory location.
The flags are set according to the following rules:
Result Flags Values
UNORDERED: ZF,PF,CF <-- 111; GREATER_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 000; LESS_THAN: ZF,PF,CF <-- 001; EQUAL: [8086]
changes the value of the carry flag: if it
was 0, it sets it to 1, and vice versa.
CMOVcc : Conditional MoveCMOVcc reg16,r/m16 ; o16 0F 40+cc /r [P6] CMOVcc reg32,r/m32 ; o32 0F 40+cc /r [P6]
moves its source (second) operand into
its destination (first) operand if the given condition code is satisfied;
otherwise it does nothing.
For a list of condition codes, see section B.2.2.
Although the instructions are flagged
and above, they may not be supported by all
Pentium Pro processors; the instruction
(section B.4.34) will return a bit which
indicates whether conditional moves are supported.
CMP : Compare IntegersCMP r/m8,reg8 ; 38 /r [8086] CMP r/m16,reg16 ; o16 39 /r [8086] CMP r/m32,reg32 ; o32 39 /r [386]
CMP reg8,r/m8 ; 3A /r [8086] CMP reg16,r/m16 ; o16 3B /r [8086] CMP reg32,r/m32 ; o32 3B /r [386]
CMP r/m8,imm8 ; 80 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m16,imm16 ; o16 81 /0 iw [8086] CMP r/m32,imm32 ; o32 81 /0 id [386]
CMP r/m16,imm8 ; o16 83 /0 ib [8086] CMP r/m32,imm8 ; o32 83 /0 ib [386]
CMP AL,imm8 ; 3C ib [8086] CMP AX,imm16 ; o16 3D iw [8086] CMP EAX,imm32 ; o32 3D id [386]
performs a `mental' subtraction of its
second operand from its first operand, and affects the flags as if the
subtraction had taken place, but does not store the result of the
subtraction anywhere.
In the forms with an 8-bit immediate second operand and a longer first
operand, the second operand is considered to be signed, and is
sign-extended to the length of the first operand. In these cases, the
qualifier is necessary to force NASM to
generate this form of the instruction.
The destination operand can be a register or a memory location. The source can be a register, memory location or an immediate value of the same size as the destination.
CMPccPD : Packed Double-Precision FP Compare CMPPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 66 0F C2 /r ib [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
CMPEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 00 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 01 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 02 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPUNORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 03 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNEQPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 04 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLTPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 05 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPNLEPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 06 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] CMPORDPD xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 66 0F C2 /r 07 [WILLAMETTE,SSE2]
The instructions compare the two
packed double-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or
all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT 1 Less-than LE 2 Less-than-or-equal UNORD 3 Unordered NE 4 Not-equal NLT 5 Not-less-than NLE 6 Not-less-than-or-equal ORD 7 Ordered
For more details of the comparison predicates, and details of how to emulate the "greater-than" equivalents, see section B.2.3
CMPccPS : Packed Single-Precision FP Compare CMPPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128,imm8 ; 0F C2 /r ib [KATMAI,SSE]
CMPEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 00 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 01 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 02 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPUNORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 03 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNEQPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 04 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLTPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 05 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPNLEPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 06 [KATMAI,SSE] CMPORDPS xmm1,xmm2/mem128 ; 0F C2 /r 07 [KATMAI,SSE]
The instructions compare the two
packed single-precision FP values in the source and destination operands,
and returns the result of the comparison in the destination register. The
result of each comparison is a doubleword mask of all 1s (comparison true)
or all 0s (comparison false).
The destination is an register. The source
can be either an register or a 128-bit memory
location.
The third operand is an 8-bit immediate value, of which the low 3 bits
define the type of comparison. For ease of programming, the 8 two-operand
pseudo-instructions are provided, with the third operand already filled in.
The are:
EQ 0 Equal LT