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- From: mcastle@mcs213d.cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle)
- Subject: Re: Undocumented instructions in x86 CPUs
- References: <mostert.51@cs.sun.ac.za>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:17:17 GMT
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- In article <mostert.51@cs.sun.ac.za> mostert@cs.sun.ac.za (A. Mostert) writes:
- >
- >Hi all
- >
- >I just became aware of an undocumented instruction that (I think) works on
- >all members of the x86 family. The opcode is D4 10 and it does this:
- > AH = AL >> 4
- > AL = AL & 0xF
- >Is this a well known instruction ? Does anyone know of any other instructions
- >(besides LOADALL and the 386 bit string stuff) that Intel did not tell us
- >about ?
-
- hmm.... listed in my Microprocessors and Peripheral Handbook... AAM
-
- Also,
- AAA 37
- AAS 3F
- AAD D5 10
-
- maybe you just need better documentation :->
-
- mrc
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