The testinstructions behave in the same manner as the and instructions, except that theyset the condition codes without altering their destinations.

The cmp instructions set the condition codes according to the differences of theirtwo operands. They behave in the same way as the sub instructions, except thatthey set the condition codes without updating their destinations.

By using a PC-relativeencoding of the jump targets, the instructions can be compactly encoded (requiringjust 2 bytes), and the object code can be shifted to different positions in memorywithout alteration.

It is important to recognize that the suffixes forthese instructions denote different conditions and not different operand sizes. Forexample, instructions setl and setb denote “set less” and “set below,” not “setlong word” or “set byte.”

one for unsigned (mulq) and one for two’s-complement (imulq) multiplication.For both of these instructions, one argument must be in register %rax, and theother is given as the instruction source operand.

The different shift instructions can specify the shift amount either asan immediate value or with the single-byte register %cl.

As with themov instructions, the two operands cannot both be memory locations.

The destination operand must be a register.

The ability of the leaq instruction to perform addition and limited forms ofmultiplication proves useful when compiling simple arithmetic expressions suchas this example.

logicallybe named movzlq, but this instruction does not exist. Instead, this type of datamovement can be implemented using a movl instruction having a register as thedestination. This technique takes advantage of the property that an instructiongenerating a 4-byte value with a register as the destination will fill the upper 4bytes with zeros.

in memory, to a register destination. Instructions in the movz class fill out theremaining bytes of the destination with zeros, while those in the movs class fillthem out by sign extension, replicating copies of the most significant bit of thesource operand.

The source operand designates a value that is immediate, stored in a register,or stored in memory. The destination operand designates a location that is either aregister or a memory address. x86-64 imposes the restriction that a move instruc-tion cannot have both operands refer to memory locations. Copying a value fromone memory location to another requires two instructions—the first to load thesource value into a register, and the second to write this register value to the des-tination.

The most general form is shown at the bottomof the table with syntax Imm(rb,ri,s). Such a reference has four components: animmediate offset Imm, a base register rb, an index register ri, and a scale factors, where s must be 1, 2, 4, or 8. Both the base and index must be 64-bit registers.The effective address is computed as Imm + R[rb] + R[ri] . s.