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Stcherbatchenko



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Stcherbatchenko 21 Apr 2004, 21:17
heh its me again but this time with a new one anyway, i wanted to know how to use the registers correctly coz i really dont know whats the difference in using anyone of them in any thing i make so if anyone can please help me with that it would be really good
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StringCheesian



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StringCheesian 21 Apr 2004, 21:57
Although some registers have prescribed uses (like ECX is traditionally the loop counter), that's merely a suggestion - you can use them for whatever you want. It doesn't matter.
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vid
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vid 22 Apr 2004, 08:29
but better do not use ESP, if you dont know what you are doing.
don't use EBP if you use standard procedure (macros like "proc", "enter", "return" etc.)
in callback procedures (those called by windows, for example window procedure) preserve value of ESI, EDI, EBP, EBX

other genereal purpose registers (GPRs, that are EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESI, EDI, ESP, EBP and their parts like AX, DL, CH etc.) are used idfferently, not with "mov", "add" etc.
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Stcherbatchenko



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Stcherbatchenko 22 Apr 2004, 08:33
heh you lost me there VID *blushes* can you explain more breifly am just a new Smile
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roticv



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roticv 22 Apr 2004, 08:43
ebx, edi and esi are usually used as pointers, and used when the coder do not want to have values changed after calling some winapi. Some opcodes are shorter with certain registers. For instance xchg eax, ebx is 1 byte shorter than xchg ebx, ecx. Also for the case of div xx, where xx is a register or a memory, it is assumed that the 64bit to be divided is in eax and edx. eax containing the lower 32bit and edx the upper 32 bits

My word of advice for esp and ebp is not to touch it unless you know what you are doing.
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