Re: A92: learning assembly - real simple question

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Subject: Re: A92: learning assembly - real simple question
From: ADAMMAN106@aol.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:36:13 EDT
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In a message dated 98-07-29 18:05:21 EDT, you write:

> In a message dated 7/29/98 4:58:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>  ADAMMAN106@aol.com writes:
>  
>  > 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
>  but having 8 bits (FEDCBA98 has 8 digits/characters) that would make it a
>  byte, right?

no, because each character in a hex number (denoted by 0x) is four bits.  so
that would make it 4*8 = 32 = longword

~Adamman

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