AMD Assembler

jah · Post by **jah** » Sat Jun 16, 2001 7:20 pm

The AMD boxen is on its way...Yeah!

I just acquired three largish Intel manuals on P6 programming. In short, my queston:

Is any of the Intel architecture relevant to my new AMD?

Now, I know that AMD is x86 environment, but let's say I fire up an assembler program. Can I refer to the same registers? Are these registers the same sizes? I know Athlon has MMX extensions.

If there are going to be big differences, are there some good tech docs about them? I have found lots of good stuff over at amd.com.

My main concern is that learning the tricks of the AMD will not be worth it, as I am an assembler newbie. Methinks maybe I should stick with an Intel x86 for simplicities sake.

But I dunno, what do y'all think?

smb · Post by **smb** » Sat Jun 16, 2001 8:22 pm

I thought assembler was compatible with both, and you had recompile to take advange of the 3dnow and SSE "extensions".

cak · Post by **cak** » Sat Jun 16, 2001 10:36 pm

What SMB said and check out AMD's website, they have programs to help you.