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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2018-02-07 11:19:26 -0800 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2018-02-07 11:19:26 -0800 |
| commit | ddea5fc0cdbef204a7713ad2fd856484df71308d (patch) | |
| tree | 40323983b177364c3c47f2f4df0b055894d0b692 | |
| parent | f53c9778cdb45c4ad5f2d5eb3b4b2a5df7d12df2 (diff) | |
| download | nasm-ddea5fc0cdbef204a7713ad2fd856484df71308d.tar.gz | |
doc: clarify need for ABS QWORD to do a 64-bit absolute load
The rarely used 64-bit absolute load instruction (what gas calls
movabsq) needs to be declared ABS if we are in relative mode, which is
normally the case.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/nasmdoc.src | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/nasmdoc.src b/doc/nasmdoc.src index 35e48001..2f6c533f 100644 --- a/doc/nasmdoc.src +++ b/doc/nasmdoc.src @@ -7778,7 +7778,7 @@ The only instructions which take a full \I{64-bit displacement}64-bit \c{EAX} or \c{RAX} (but no other registers) to an absolute 64-bit address. Since this is a relatively rarely used instruction (64-bit code generally uses relative addressing), the programmer has to explicitly declare the -displacement size as \c{QWORD}: +displacement size as \c{ABS QWORD}: \c default abs \c |