Difference terminology in MASM, I'm trying to figure out what the difference is between "B" and "H" used with numbers.

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Hey, I've been messing with MASM for a short-while now and I'm trying to figure out what the difference is between "B" and "H", for example:

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mov eax, 0h; nothing ?

If i use this code in a program:

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MOV EAX, FS:[18h]

and view the debugger, the FS register is equal to 3B <<< What is this, 30 bytes allocated on the stack?........ Any answers would be nice xD. Thanks

PS: a bit of detail on this would be appreciated.


shoorick
Extremely Active Member Group: Admins Posts: 2303 Member No.: 160 Joined: 22-June 04	although windows uses flat model - all selectors points same memoty segment, FS is used in exeption handling, i will not tell you a lot as i'm not an expert in everything - read more about protected mode and exception handling. in protected mode FS is selector and used not as segment offset, but as pojnter to entry in the table of descriptors (or something like this) so in PM "FS=10h" says nothing about segment which FS points - you have to examine tables of descriptors.

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