On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Guillem Jover guillem@hadrons.org wrote:
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 17:54:57 +0000, Julian Pidancet wrote:
So according to the manual, it should be BP, not EBP.
The register being decreased should match the one being used to address the stack, and the one to use depends on the descriptor as per above.
There is no "descriptor" in real mode. Default stack size is always 16-bit. Also, I think the right thing to do is to decrement BP instead of EBP when SYSMODE_PREFIX_DATA is set:
M.x86.R_BP -= 4; push_long(fetch_data_long_abs(M.x86.R_SS, M.x86.R_BP));
instead of:
M.x86.R_EBP -= 4; push_long(fetch_data_long_abs(M.x86.R_SS, M.x86.R_BP));
...to remain exactly consistent with the manual.
In any case, It won't be a problem, because the 16 high bits of EBP will most likely be zero in real-mode code.
Well, not if the the code is using some 32-bit instructions. :)
They are not "32-bit instructions". The processor is still functioning in real-mode, therefore, addressing still follows the rules of real-mode addressing, as mentioned in Volume 1:Basic Architecture :
3.3.5 32-Bit and 16-Bit Address and Operand Sizes
[...]
When operating in real-address mode, the default addressing and operand size is 16 bits. An address-size override can be used in real-address mode to enable 32-bit addressing. However, the maximum allowable 32-bit linear address is still 000FFFFFH (2^20-1).