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- From: beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Strange 80x86 OPCODE
- Keywords: 80x86 Assembler Fun
- Message-ID: <Bs7t7n.G28@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 18:40:35 GMT
- References: <3947@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Sender: news@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Netnews Admin)
- Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada
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- In article <3947@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
- >
- >Doing my thing I hit upon a truly strange op-code:
- >
- >It's 0F 3D, i.e. 286+ 2-byte opcode that has 3D as the second
- >byte. Problem is, that I can't find any reference to it anywhere.
- >It looks like it's either something very new or undocumented.
-
- I check inside Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 and found nothing.
- This includes 80386 instructions. However, I had to check each
- instruction one at the time since there is no summary table
- for all opcodes. Could you indicate (1) references you already check
- and (2) context where this instruction appeared.
-
- In old Apple ][, the boot program was executing some text so that
- 1) you couldn't remove Apple name from EPROM in at least one place or
- other modify the EPROM except in a few places
- 2) you couldn't replace the 6502 chip by a 65C?? (I forget the name, was
- a more powerful version of 6502 with more instructions, like the 8088/V20)
-
- I don't think this is possible in Sorftware running in any PC. In the
- 6502, empty codes were doing always the same thing and most could
- be documented and predicted. In 80x86 _family_, this is not possible.
-
- >
- >I considered the possibility of the 0F being a 8088/8086 POP CS,
- >but the surrounding code excludes this.
- >
- >Anyone have any idea what that opcode does?
- >
- >Aki.
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