From: H. Peter Anvin Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 05:26:26 +0000 (-0800) Subject: doc: Make the bit about mib operands a bit clearer X-Git-Tag: nasm-2.11.05~38 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=50137b82748b4fad54591571bf756d9c3a2746b5;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fnasm.git doc: Make the bit about mib operands a bit clearer Clean up the text about what a mib is. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- diff --git a/doc/nasmdoc.src b/doc/nasmdoc.src index 2ba24c2..09e06fa 100644 --- a/doc/nasmdoc.src +++ b/doc/nasmdoc.src @@ -1462,9 +1462,10 @@ In 64-bit mode, NASM will by default generate absolute addresses. The this is frequently the normally desired behaviour, see the \c{DEFAULT} directive (\k{default}). The keyword \i\c{ABS} overrides \i\c{REL}. -A new form of split effective addres syntax is also supported. This is mainly -intended for mib operand but can be used for any memory reference. The basic -concept of this form is splitting base and index. +A new form of split effective addres syntax is also supported. This is +mainly intended for mib operands as used by MPX instructions, but can +be used for any memory reference. The basic concept of this form is +splitting base and index. \c mov eax,[ebx+8,ecx*4] ; ebx=base, ecx=index, 4=scale, 8=disp