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Jump instructions are always optimized to use the smallest possible displacements. This is accomplished by using byte (8-bit) displacement jumps whenever the target is sufficiently close. If a byte displacement is insufficient a long displacement is used. We do not support word (16-bit) displacement jumps in 32-bit mode (i.e. prefixing the jump instruction with the `data16' instruction prefix), since the 80386 insists upon masking `%eip' to 16 bits after the word displacement is added. (See also see i386-Arch)
Note that the `jcxz', `jecxz', `loop', `loopz',
`loope', `loopnz' and `loopne' instructions only come in byte
displacements, so that if you use these instructions (gcc
does
not use them) you may get an error message (and incorrect code). The AT&T
80386 assembler tries to get around this problem by expanding `jcxz foo'
to
jcxz cx_zero jmp cx_nonzero cx_zero: jmp foo cx_nonzero: