Hello,

how to extract the n-th bit from a general purpose register?
I think that I should use a shift instruction, or a logical instruction, but there are many instructions of this kind.

Maybe, the technique to do that is to put the n-th bit in a low part of a register as follow: [0000000n]
where n is the bit that I want get.

Can you help me?
What instruction would be useful for me?

Regards.

You may consider use of the bt instruction for bits testing.

Thanks, so this following code:

This code stores the 42nd bit of ECX in CF flag?
Am I right?

ecx is only 32 bits. maximum value is then 31 for a 32 bit register.
bit 0 to 31.

42 is illegal, but can work if you test on a memory operand, and it will let scan very large bitstreams in memory.
but for BT on registers, it is limited to the register size, sorry, a 32 bit register cannot hold more than 32 bits.

Yes, I was distracted, sorry for the 42.

But this code is alright with 64-bits registers (or a value lesser than 31)?

RTFM (Read The Fucking Manual)
en français, lire le foutu manuel, car justement, tout et dit sur les instructions dans les manuels du programmeur disponibles sur les sites d'intel, AMD, ou autre fondeur.

pour un debutant, le manuel amd est plus facile à aborder, les instructions sont expliquées avec des dessins, ce qui facilite la comprehension, par rapport aux explications à base de pseudo code d'intel.

bienvenue dans le monde magique de fasm.

Je ne connaissais pas BT avant, c'est justement grâce au "foutu manuel" que j'ai pu savoir ce que ça faisait (donc je le lis, et plutôt bien je pense. On ne peut pas deviner à propos de CF).
Je demandais juste une confirmation pour savoir si j'avais bien compris, où est le mal ?

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I didn't know the BT instruction earlier, but it's the "fucking manual" that given to me a knowledge about BT (so, I read it; I didn't could guess for CF).
I just asked if my code was alright because I wanted a confirmation. Nothing bad?


Merci bien edfed.

pas de mal, juste la reponse la plus pertinente, car si à chaque instruction, on demande comment ça marche, on a pas fini. il y a plusieurs centaines d'instructions X86

nothing bad, just the more pertinent answer, because if for each instruction, man ask how it works, it will take mounth, there are several hundred x86 instructions.



BT have BTC, BTS and BTR variations:
Complement, complement the tested bit
Set, set the tested bit to 1
Reset, set the tested bit to 0

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But this code is alright with 64-bits registers? (or a value lesser than 31)?

donc je le lis, et plutôt bien je pense.

bein faut lire mieux alors, ou plus, ou plus longtemps, ou plus fort ... sais pas.

Je taquinne emc, rien de plus ...
pas pu m'empêcher (oui, je vais au coin, punis)

c'est vrai que de demander, même si c'est écrit noir sur blanc,
ça rassure. Ceci dit, quand il y a un doute, rien de tel qu'un bon debugger
et de tester ça en "vrai", y'a pas mieux pour apprendre.

Ok sorry about that, I am yet beginner, so I feel the need to be reassured...
But no problem, I shall try to test alone in the future.

I did the program that I wanted to do thanks to you.

Thanks!

PS: je penserai à mon gdb ouadji !

Merci ouadji, c'est vrai que moi j'épluche le manuel que depuis hier, mais je vais songer à regarder un peu le manuel AMD (pour ses dessins) comme edfed le conseille, ça sera peut-être moins ardue.

And also remember the instruction PEXT. It can be used to transfer the desired bit directly to a register and doesn't affect the flags.

Here, affecting CF suited me, to use JC/JNC then. But I'll remember the PEXT instruction, thanks revolution.

PEXTR* extracts full bytes/words/dwords, single bits still need to be extracted separately through use of BT or AND,SHR instructions.

Unfortunately, I don't have SSE4.1 and AVX so I can't use PEXTR*

And you'll need AVX2 for PEXT.

oh nice one, revolution!
I didn't catch that. I plan on investing in AVX2 CPU, because I haven't got anything newer than Penryn.
It's got some really nice integer instructions. Maybe I can help make the world better helping Tomasz, Agner etc.