Re: length of a string?

From: Ivan Kossey (Kossey_at_cablenet.de)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:13:36 +0100

The only difference is that dec does not set the carry flag. If You need
carry decrementig zero then use
 sub eax,1

otherwise dec eax is shorter and use it.

Cheers
Ivan Kossey
"Bonj" <Bonj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E942AD39-1E3F-4C7E-9507-B649DA3D3CD8@microsoft.com...
> Is
> sub eax, 1
> better than
> dec eax
> ?
>

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