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From: rcollins@altos86.Altos.COM (Robert Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Segment overrides - TAMS bug???
Message-ID: <299@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 7 May 91 16:35:03 GMT
References: <1991May3.063740.10187@ugle.unit.no> <1469@balrog.ctron.com>
Reply-To: rcollins@altos86.UUCP (Robert Collins)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
Lines: 21

In article <1469@balrog.ctron.com> dj@ctron.com writes:
>
>String instructions do not obey segment overrides.
>
On whose part?  Certain string instructions do allow segment overrides.
Believe me, I use them all of the time.  With MASM, I must encode them
as follows:

rep	movs byte ptr es:[di],byte ptr es:[si]

The CPU certainly does support segment overrides for some string
instructions.




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