Re: A92: learning assembly - real simple question


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Re: A92: learning assembly - real simple question




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In a message dated 98-07-29 16:31:33 EDT, you write:

> In a message dated 7/29/98 2:09:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>  ADAMMAN106@aol.com writes:
>  
>  > byte: 8 bits
>  >  word: 2 bytes: 16 bits
>  >  longword: 2 words: 4 bytes: 32 bits
>  >  
>  >  byte: 256 range
>  >  word: 65,536 range
>  >  longword:4,294,967,296 range
>  
>  okay then, what is a lower word and an upper word?  if l did:
>  clr.w    D1
>  which clears the lower word of D1 then what would D1 look like?  how would
l
>  clear the upper word?

sorry, but I don't know any 68K.  but say D1 (which I'll assume for the
purposes of this is a longword (32 bit) register) was 0xFEDCBA98, then the
result of clr.w D1 would be FEDC0000
I couldn't tell you how to clear the upper word, sorry

~Adamman


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