Opcode Naming
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   Opcode names are suffixed with one character modifiers which specify
the size of operands.  The letters `b', `w', and `l' specify byte,
word, and long operands.  If no suffix is specified by an instruction
and it contains no memory operands then `as' tries to fill in the
missing suffix based on the destination register operand (the last one
by convention).  Thus, `mov %ax, %bx' is equivalent to `movw %ax, %bx';
also, `mov $1, %bx' is equivalent to `movw $1, %bx'.  Note that this is
incompatible with the AT&T Unix assembler which assumes that a missing
opcode suffix implies long operand size.  (This incompatibility does
not affect compiler output since compilers always explicitly specify
the opcode suffix.)

   Almost all opcodes have the same names in AT&T and Intel format.
There are a few exceptions.  The sign extend and zero extend
instructions need two sizes to specify them.  They need a size to
sign/zero extend *from* and a size to zero extend *to*.  This is
accomplished by using two opcode suffixes in AT&T syntax.  Base names
for sign extend and zero extend are `movs...' and `movz...' in AT&T
syntax (`movsx' and `movzx' in Intel syntax).  The opcode suffixes are
tacked on to this base name, the *from* suffix before the *to* suffix.
Thus, `movsbl %al, %edx' is AT&T syntax for "move sign extend *from*
%al *to* %edx."  Possible suffixes, thus, are `bl' (from byte to long),
`bw' (from byte to word), and `wl' (from word to long).

   The Intel-syntax conversion instructions

   * `cbw' -- sign-extend byte in `%al' to word in `%ax',

   * `cwde' -- sign-extend word in `%ax' to long in `%eax',

   * `cwd' -- sign-extend word in `%ax' to long in `%dx:%ax',

   * `cdq' -- sign-extend dword in `%eax' to quad in `%edx:%eax',

are called `cbtw', `cwtl', `cwtd', and `cltd' in AT&T naming.  `as'
accepts either naming for these instructions.

   Far call/jump instructions are `lcall' and `ljmp' in AT&T syntax,
but are `call far' and `jump far' in Intel convention.