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hopcode



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hopcode 24 Feb 2010, 06:35
Hallo Everybody,
I am starting a new thread to post here all notes and snippets using the basic Pentium MMX instructions.
I will start with the PCMPGTB.
As stated in Intel docs
Quote:
0F 64 /r PCMPGTB mm, mm/m64
A Valid Valid Compare packed signed byte integers in mm and mm/m64 for greater than.

the following snippet works as expected, to substitute 20h <= chars > 7Fh with dot (2Eh) :
Code:
 mask2E dq 2E2E2E2E2E2E2E2Eh
 mask20 dq 2020202020202020h
 result dq 0
 dummy dd 0
 szStr1 db "hell",127,128,129,13

 movq mm3,qword[mask2E]
 movq mm4,qword[mask20]

 movq mm0,qword[szStr1]
 movq mm1,mm0
 pcmpgtb mm0,mm4
 pand mm1,mm0
 pandn mm0,mm3
 por mm1,mm0
 movq qword[result],mm1
    

After comparing

13 129 128 127 l l e h gives 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF in MM0

It is to say,you dont need another compare for chars > 7F. But signedness is not described (or the doc was not yet updated) on RHyde MMX Chapter 11.7.5

Cheers, Very Happy
hopcode
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revolution
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revolution 24 Feb 2010, 07:13
You can always download the Intel/AMD docs directly for the current info. No need to rely upon third party websites, they could be out of date or wrong.
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