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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: TASM bug? (no, not at all)
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In article <2953@amc-gw.amc.com> jwbirdsa@europa.amc.com (James Birdsall) writes:
>   There's also MOVZX, an obscure instruction that is available on all 80x86.
>It will extend a byte to a word, zeroing the high byte. I don't know how the
>execution time compares to an XOR/MOV pair, but I suspect it is faster.
>   Unfortunately, the complementary instruction (MOVSX, move with sign
>extend) is only available on the 386.

MOVZX is only available in TASM in 386 mode, and doesn't seem to work on my
8086.  Is there some special encoding that TASM doesn't know about to get
it to work there, or do you mean all 80x86 except mine?

Duncan Murdoch