fvertk
Reputation: 169
What does leal (%eax, %eax) do?
What does leal (%eax, %eax) do? Does that multiply the contents at %eax * 2 since it has parens?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 1204
Answers (1)
Alexey Frunze
Reputation: 62048
It will load the destination operand with the sum of eax and eax, IOW, 2*eax.
Upvotes: 4
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