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Re: Synthetic register related: maximum value of a modrm byte in i386
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, ja_walker at earthlink dot net
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 06:37:16 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Synthetic register related: maximum value of a modrm byte in i386
> The next, and obvious, question is how negative can it be?
obvious indeed :-)
It is just normal twos complement notation, like any other integer on
the machine.