Re: what does "lea" do?

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From: Victor Bazarov (v.Abazarov_at_comAcast.net)
Date: 12/14/04


Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:01:34 -0500

Bonj wrote:
> Well, sorry actually
> lea ecx, [ecx]
> was a bad example
> I meant the operands to be hypothetical....
>
>
> Or do you mean that the instruction "lea" *never* actually does anything
> itself, other than a NOP?

Of course not. Read the page the link to which I and Relvinian gave.