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Encoding of Effective Addresses
Unless you are concerned with the nitty-gritty details of 86
instruction encoding, you don't need to read this file.
Every instruction with an effective address has an encoded byte,
known as the effective address byte, following the 1-byte opcode
for the instruction. (For obscure reasons, Intel calls this byte
the ModRM byte.) If the effective address is a memory variable,
or an indexed memory location with a non-zero constant offset,
then the effective address byte will be immediately followed by
the offset amount. Amounts in the range -128 to +127 are given
by a single signed byte, denoted by "d8" in the table below.
Amounts requiring a 2-byte representation are denoted by "d16" in
the table below. As with all 16-bit memory quantities in the 86
family, the word is stored with the least significant byte FIRST.
The following table of effective address byte values is organized
into 32 rows and 8 columns. The 32 rows give the possible values
for the effective address operand: 8 registers and 24 memory
indexing modes. A 25th indexing mode, [BP] with zero
displacement, has been pre-empted by the simple-memory-variable
case. If you code [BP] with no displacement, you will get
[BP]+d8, with a d8-value of zero.
The 8 columns of the table reflect further information given by
the effective address byte. Usually, this is the identity of the
other (always a register) operand of a 2-operand instruction.
Those instructions are identified by a "/r" following the opcode
byte in the instruction list. Sometimes, the information given
supplements the opcode byte in identifying the instruction
itself. Those instructions are identified by a "/" followed by a
digit from 0 through 7. The digit tells which of the 8 columns
you should use to find the effective address byte.
For example, suppose you have a perverse wish to know the precise
bytes encoded by the instruction SUB B[BX+17],100. This
instruction subtracts an immediate quantity, 100, from an
effective address quantity, B[BX+17]. By consulting the
instruction list, you find the general form SUB eb,ib. The
opcode bytes given there are 80 /5 ib. The "/5" denotes an
effective address byte, whose value will be taken from column 5
of the following table. The offset 17 decimal, which is 11 hex,
will fit in a single "d8" byte, so we take our value from the
"[BX] + d8" row. The table tells us that the effective address
byte is 6F. Immediately following the 6F is the offset, 11 hex.
Following that is the ib-value of 100 decimal, which is 64 hex.
So the bytes generated by SUB B[BX+17],100 are 80 6F 11 64.
Table of Effective Address byte values
s = ES CS SS DS
rb = AL CL DL BL AH CH DH BH
rw = AX CX DX BX SP BP SI DI
digit= 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Effective
EA byte address:
values: 00 08 10 18 20 28 30 38 [BX + SI]
01 09 11 19 21 29 31 39 [BX + DI]
02 0A 12 1A 22 2A 32 3A [BP + SI]
03 0B 13 1B 23 2B 33 3B [BP + DI]
04 0C 14 1C 24 2C 34 3C [SI]
05 0D 15 1D 25 2D 35 3D [DI]
06 0E 16 1E 26 2E 36 3E d16 (simple var)
07 0F 17 1F 27 2F 37 3F [BX]
40 48 50 58 60 68 70 78 [BX + SI] + d8
41 49 51 59 61 69 71 79 [BX + DI] + d8
42 4A 52 5A 62 6A 72 7A [BP + SI] + d8
43 4B 53 5B 63 6B 73 7B [BP + DI] + d8
44 4C 54 5C 64 6C 74 7C [SI] + d8
45 4D 55 5D 65 6D 75 7D [DI] + d8
46 4E 56 5E 66 6E 76 7E [BP] + d8
47 4F 57 5F 67 6F 77 7F [BX] + d8
80 88 90 98 A0 A8 B0 B8 [BX + SI] + d16
81 89 91 99 A1 A9 B1 B9 [BX + DI] + d16
82 8A 92 9A A2 AA B2 BA [BP + SI] + d16
83 8B 93 9B A3 AB B3 BB [BP + DI] + d16
84 8C 94 9C A4 AC B4 BC [SI] + d16
85 8D 95 9D A5 AD B5 BD [DI] + d16
86 8E 96 9E A6 AE B6 BE [BP] + d16
87 8F 97 9F A7 AF B7 BF [BX] + d16
C0 C8 D0 D8 E0 E8 F0 F8 ew=AX eb=AL
C1 C9 D1 D9 E1 E9 F1 F9 ew=CX eb=CL
C2 CA D2 DA E2 EA F2 FA ew=DX eb=DL
C3 CB D3 DB E3 EB F3 FB ew=BX eb=BL
C4 CC D4 DC E4 EC F4 FC ew=SP eb=AH
C5 CD D5 DD E5 ED F5 FD ew=BP eb=CH
C6 CE D6 DE E6 EE F6 FE ew=SI eb=DH
C7 CF D7 DF E7 EF F7 FF ew=DI eb=BH
d8 denotes an 8-bit displacement following the EA byte, to be
sign-extended and added to the index.
d16 denotes a 16-bit displacement following the EA byte, to be
added to the index.
Default segment register is SS for effective addresses containing
a BP index; DS for other memory effective addresses.