Do address spaces have a sign ?

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shutdownall

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shutdownall 17 Dec 2012, 23:59

I am working on the sources and found some big changes in ASSEMBLE.INC regarding older version 1.69.35.

I am actually working on ORG directive and virtual address spaces and found an address sign for an address space.
What's it for ?
Can an address space have a negative sign ?

Code:

      virtual_at_current:
  dec     esi
 mov     ebp,[addressing_space]
      mov     al,[ds:ebp+9]
   mov     [value_type],al
     mov     eax,edi
     xor     edx,edx
     xor     cl,cl
       sub     eax,[ds:ebp]
    sbb     edx,[ds:ebp+4]
  sbb     cl,[ds:ebp+8]
   mov     [address_sign],cl
   mov     bx,[ds:ebp+10h]
 mov     cx,[ds:ebp+10h+2]
       xchg    bh,bl
       xchg    ch,cl
       mov     ebp,[ds:ebp+14h]

17 Dec 2012, 23:59

l_inc

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l_inc 18 Dec 2012, 13:17

shutdownall
Not sure, what you mean under an "address space sign", but addresses can definitely have a sign (and, obviously, an address space can start with such a negative address). Especially in the context of the 64-bit "canonical addressing".

18 Dec 2012, 13:17

baldr

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baldr 18 Dec 2012, 19:56

shutdownall,

This is probably because fasm uses 65-bit values internally.

18 Dec 2012, 19:56

shutdownall

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shutdownall 18 Dec 2012, 20:09

l_inc wrote:

shutdownall
Not sure, what you mean under an "address space sign", but addresses can definitely have a sign (and, obviously, an address space can start with such a negative address). Especially in the context of the 64-bit "canonical addressing".

Okay - this is new to me.
Do you have an example ? Shocked

18 Dec 2012, 20:09

l_inc

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l_inc 19 Dec 2012, 14:56

shutdownall
An example of what? Negative address in fasm? Here it is:

Code:

org -$10
dw $
dd $-2
dq $-6

Sure, there are no easter egg memory locations addressable with a negative address. Thus the value just wraps around. In some cases like canonical addressing this could be convenient.

19 Dec 2012, 14:56

shutdownall

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shutdownall 30 Dec 2012, 00:09

l_inc wrote:

Sure, there are no easter egg memory locations addressable with a negative address.

What a pity. Very Happy

Anyway thanks, I never thought about using these address techniques.

30 Dec 2012, 00:09

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