Re: Operand size mismatch

> Thank you Dennis.
>
> Here is another one that does not compile in D7.
>
> function txsearch.PentiumTick: Int64; assembler
> asm
> @@Start: dw rdtsc
> end;
>
> would this be the same as (from Google)
>
> function txsearch.PentiumTick: Int64; assembler
> asm
> @@Start: dw 310Fh // rdtsc
> end;

That would work, but since Delphi 7 knows this instruction you could
also just write this:

function txsearch.PentiumTick: Int64; assembler
asm
@@Start: rdtsc
end;

They propably defined rdtsc as a constant somewhere because some
earlier Delphi versions didn't support RDTSC.

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