Re: newbie: MUL product

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:02:09 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer <klee@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Frank Kotler wrote:

Okay, Herbert was joking about the "case" part. But I think he was
making a point about why his syntax is "better" than Intel's...

Nobody understands my jokes! It was meant the way, that if people
(and I also belonged to these people when I wrote my assembler, so
I called the instruction "muls" instead just "mul") don't know that for
a 32x32->32 multiplication there is no difference between signed
and unsigned multiplication, then it would be better if an assembler
would provide two different mnemonics (mul and imul in the case
of Intel syntax) for the same opcode.


When I was in high school, every year at the beginning of the year,
there would be a new freshman asking how to get to a certain
classroom. I always told them, "down the hall, turn right, take the
elevator".

Our high school was a one-story building.

As a newbie assembly student, I feel like that freshman! :)

Karma, I suppose. :) I actually looked at the CASE of the opcode
instructions. hehehe.

Can someone tell me where the "any" key is??? it says "Press any key
to continue".

--
thanks,
Brian
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