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		jeffbee 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: x86 architecture 1 byte opcodes Tons of these have immediate operands. The question becomes is ADD with an implicit register destination and an immediate value in the next byte a "1-byte opcode"?

Sharlin 61 days ago [–]

Yes, indeed. I'd allow only mov to have a memory or immediate parameter as the only exception to one-byte encoding.

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