A86 Assembler - Re: Accessing debug registers with nasm

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Re: Accessing debug registers with nasm

Phil Carmody

2004-11-16, 6:51 pm

spamtrap@crayne.org (Devesh Agrawal) writes:

> Hi ,
> I want to know how I can access debug registers in intel 386 , like
> DR6 , DR7 etc using nasm , when i say something like xor dr6,dr6 , it
> tells that I have used invalid operands , any ideas ?

Yes, they're invalid operands for an XOR.

Did you not think of trying to MOV them into a general purpose
register before trying to perform arithmetic on them?

Phil
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