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a115433



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a115433 08 Apr 2010, 10:38
whats diffrent between fword - pword and tbyte - tword?
they both have 6/10 bytes.
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revolution 08 Apr 2010, 10:44
They are the same. One aliases the other. For backward compatibility.
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Fanael 09 Apr 2010, 06:47
revolution wrote:
For backward compatibility.
s/backward/awkward/ Wink
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revolution 09 Apr 2010, 06:50
I have always like the 'fword' operator, if only to watch the childish reactions of non-assembly programmers whenever they see "fword' in the source code. Snickers all around. Rolling Eyes
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a115433 09 Apr 2010, 07:07
ok but why f/p/t/t prefixes?
byte - 1
word - 2
dword - double word
fword - ???
pword - ???
qword - quad word
tbyte - ???
tword - ??? t like ten? wtf.
dqword - double quad word
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revolution 09 Apr 2010, 07:08
a115433 wrote:
ok but why f/p/t/t prefixes?
I already told you, backward compatibility. They don't really mean anything. Fword is supposed to be far, Pword I dunno, Tword is temporary
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zhak 09 Apr 2010, 09:36
t could be used as Triple (tword - triple word - 6 bytes)
p could be used as Penta (pword - penta word - 10 bytes)

and so on... hexa, octa, the rest
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Tomasz Grysztar 09 Apr 2010, 10:47
revolution wrote:
Pword I dunno

It's "pointer", AFAIK.

revolution wrote:
Tword is temporary
That's right. But TASM's TBYTE is most probably just "TEN of BYTE". Very Happy
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