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x64 assembler fun-facts

The Oracle at Delphi – While implementing the x64 built-in assembler for Delphi 64bit, I got to “know” the AMD64/EM64T architecture a lot more. The good thing about the x64 architecture is that it really builds on the existing instruction format and design. However, unlike the move from 16bit to 32bit where most existing instruction encodings were automatically promoted to using 32bit arguments, the x64 design takes a different approach. One myth about the x64 instructions is that “everything’s wider.” That’s not the case. In fact many addressing modes which were taken as absolute addresses (actually offsets within ...

Favorite? Off-Topic? Allen Bauer @ 2011-10-05 22:05