Re: gas jump

[Maciej Hrebien <m_hrebien@wp.pl>]

Maciej Hrebien wrote:
> 
> Fekete Gabor wrote:
> >
> > hi
> >
> > i want to make a relative jump.
> > i tried it with "jmp 0x09" and expected it to
> > jump to the address that comes 9 bytes after
> > this "jmp".
> > is it correct?
> 
> Nope. Try jmp .+9 as Robert Plantz suggested in his post dated
> 02.02.2003 ("." means current address that gas is assembling into so ie.
> l: .long . gives you l with its own address stored into) or hard code it
> as .byte 0xeb, 0x09 (0xeb is jmp rel8). Isn't it better to just label if
> your code isn't the fixed one? ;)

I missed something, 9 bytes AFTER, so +2 because jmp rel8 encodes with 2
bytes. Sorry!

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Maciej Hrebien