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redundant override in "ss:bp" for clarity (Developers)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 14.05.2012, 18:47

> My assembler does not insert them, so in my code I put the
> SS: in there as a form of documentation, to remind myself that I'm working
> with the stack and not "regular" memory.

I merely insure to always put bp as the first addend if I address memory using it. So that I'd always use [bp+XX...], never [XX...+bp]. This way, I can (at least in my own source) quickly tell what segment registers an explicitly specified address uses; it'll either begin with an override "[Xs:" (indicating that segment register naturally), or with "[bp" (indicating ss), or neither of those (indicating ds).

To regularly use your method, I'd of course first have to extend NASM to have it optimise away redundant overrides - so I lacked that feature in the first place. On the other hand, I might have preferred the convention described above even if I had it, because I sometimes do tend to save some typing if I think it'd be overly redundant.

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Complete thread:

• indirect far jmp in NASM - RayeR, 10.05.2012, 10:46
  • indirect far jmp in NASM - RayeR, 10.05.2012, 13:16
    • indirect far jmp - ecm, 10.05.2012, 13:26
    • indirect far jmp in NASM - Rugxulo, 10.05.2012, 13:26
      • indirect far jmp in NASM - RayeR, 10.05.2012, 14:07
        • indirect far jmp - ecm, 10.05.2012, 15:17
          • indirect far jmp - RayeR, 11.05.2012, 00:47
            • indirect far jmp - ecm, 11.05.2012, 12:46
            • indirect far jmp - bretjohn, 11.05.2012, 18:53
              • indirect far jmp - RayeR, 11.05.2012, 19:31
                • indirect far jmp - bretjohn, 11.05.2012, 22:31
                  • indirect far jmp - ecm, 11.05.2012, 22:33
                    • indirect far jmp - RayeR, 12.05.2012, 00:33
                      • indirect far jmp - Arjay, 12.05.2012, 01:07
                        • indirect far jmp - ecm, 12.05.2012, 01:27
                          • indirect far jmp - Arjay, 12.05.2012, 11:09
                            • indirect far jmp - ecm, 12.05.2012, 21:18
                        • indirect far jmp - RayeR, 12.05.2012, 21:17
                          • indirect far jmp/call - Chaining Interrupt Service Routines - Arjay, 13.05.2012, 13:16
                      • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - RayeR, 13.05.2012, 04:01
                        • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - ecm, 13.05.2012, 04:27
                          • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - RayeR, 13.05.2012, 15:33
                            • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - bretjohn, 13.05.2012, 17:05
                              • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - RayeR, 13.05.2012, 17:15
                                • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - RayeR, 13.05.2012, 19:19
                                  • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - Rugxulo, 13.05.2012, 20:02
                                    • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - RayeR, 13.05.2012, 20:49
                                    • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - ecm, 13.05.2012, 23:49
                                  • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - ecm, 13.05.2012, 23:40
                                    • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - ecm, 14.05.2012, 00:07
                                      • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - RayeR, 14.05.2012, 01:19
                            • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - ecm, 13.05.2012, 23:44
                              • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - bretjohn, 14.05.2012, 18:30
                                • redundant override in "ss:bp" for clarity - ecm, 14.05.2012, 18:47
                                • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - RayeR, 14.05.2012, 18:50
                                  • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - bretjohn, 14.05.2012, 20:16
                                    • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - ecm, 14.05.2012, 20:21
                                      • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - bretjohn, 14.05.2012, 21:42
                                        • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - bretjohn, 15.05.2012, 18:45
                                          • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - ecm, 15.05.2012, 18:53
                                            • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - bretjohn, 15.05.2012, 20:13
                                              • indirect far jmp - calling old INT problem - RayeR, 17.05.2012, 01:25