Assembly: Bit Shifting

Contributed by William_Wilson  
Tagged: Computer programming  

Shift bits left or right by a desired numebr of places

Bit shifting is an easy task.
Shift left (in this case by 8):

shl EAX,8


or to Shift right (in this case by 8):

shr EAX,8


you simply provide the 2 operands:
1) the register to shift
2) the number of places to shift

This method will autmoatically fill the slots without data as 0.

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-William. § (marvin_gohan)