Mov al, byte [memory] - adding padding?

GraveMind · Post by **GraveMind** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:07 am

Hi,

Was trying to work out why this instruction causes padding in high memory. E.g "[memory location],00" after the instruction and ModRM byte.

Code I'm getting is:

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8A 16 C1 00 to represent mov dl, byte [memory]

Jim

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:29 am

There is no such thing as an 8 bit absolute address. You're running in 16 bits mode and therefore the absolute address is 16 bits wide (and occupies two bytes).

GraveMind · Post by **GraveMind** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:03 am

Ah I see, thanks!

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Mov al, byte [memory] - adding padding?

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