Talk:X86 assembly language
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I think this article :
- should have an introduction,
- should link to some free software assembler.
Ericd 20:54 Apr 23, 2003 (UTC)
isn't NASM a free assembler?
Perhaps this should be moved to Wikibooks? Dysprosia 12:12, 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)
[edit] This doesn't look like anything about assembly language
This article doesn't look like anything it has anything to do with assembly language, it looks more like a general overview of x86. Those articles already exist in the form of the x86 and IA-32 articles.
--ykhan 17:25, 2004 May 3 (UTC)
I agree. In fact, its not even a fair or correct description of x86 CPUs -- in particular AMD's processors do not have a "rename register" stage. (Rename registers are implicit, and don't require an additional stage to be assigned like they do in other processors.) A corrected version of this description could probably be added to an x86 CPU page.
I think this article should contrast x86 assembly versus, say, DSP, RISC assemblies. Talk about complex addressing, independence from alignment restrictions, atomic instructions, SIMD instructions, implicit flags, partially implicit and partially general registers.
(Paul Hsieh July 6, 2005)
To answer the question of merging IA32 and IA64 article's.
A catalog seperate's, and only usage binds.
A catalog can hold seperate usage bindings.
Niels Krook
Yeah i agree too guys. - Alex
LazyASM 0.52
NASM 0.98.39
FASM 1.64
NBASM32 00.25.97
YASM 0.40
[edit] List of x86 assembly language instructions
maybe such a list should be created?
- Initial 8086/8088 instructions and "real mode"
- Initial 8087 (x87) instructions
- 80186/80188 additions (few)
- 80187 additions (few if any)
- 80286 additions, "protected mode"
- 80287 additions (few if any)
- 80386 additions, "virtual 8086 mode", 32bit
- 80387 additions
- 80486 additions (few), including x87 (few if any)
- 80586 (Pentium) additions (few)
- 80686 (Pentium Pro) additions (few)
- 80786 (Athlon, P4) - none?
- 80886 (Athlon64) additions (few), "long mode", 64bit
- Intel MMX
- Cyrix MMX extensions (supported by Athlon64)
- AMD 3DNow!
- AMD 3DNow! extensions
- Intel SSE
- Intel SSE2
- Intel SSE3
- SSE3 HyperThreading instructions (2)
- Intel VMX - 10 instruction about Virtualisation Technology
- x86-64 (AMD64) undocumented instructions and behaivour not supported in EM64T (Intel)
- NexGen Nx586, Nx587 irregulars?
- Other irregualrs - NEC, UMC, Cyrix, IDT, Rise, VIA, SiS, etc.
- If you mean a complete list of instructions, that might better belong in a reference manual; we could link to Intel and AMD's reference documentation online.
- Perhaps summarizing the instruction set, including various additions done at various times, would be useful. Guy Harris 20:34, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- It seems that there is already such list here: X86 instruction listings. But it is still incomplete 212.36.8.100 11:42, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
To answer the question of merging IA32 and IA64 article's. A catalog seperate's, and only usage binds. A catalog can hold seperate usage bindings. Niels Krook.
