Error 'Mov wrong parameters'

assembly emulation low-level emu8086
Programmer picture Programmer · Jan 23, 2014 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I'm starting to learn Assembly (ASM x86). I'm using the emulator emu8086. I've written the following instruction:

mov eax,3

When I'm trying to emulate the instruction, emu8086 writes: wrong parameters MOV eax,3. probably it's an undefined var: eax

In addition, when I replaced eax with ax, ah or al - It worked just fine.

Why is it like that? What should I do in order to fix this problem? Thanks.

Answer

chbaker0 picture chbaker0 · Jan 23, 2014

emu8086 emulates the original 8086. It's a 16 bit processor, so there are no 32 bit registers (eax, ebx, etc.)

For a bit more information on the register layout, check out the Wikipedia page on the Intel 8086.

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