What set of instructions is used in COM files? I assumed it was 8086, but it seems that I was wrong. In a 8086 manual I found, shl can only accept 1 or cl for its second argument, while immediate values other than 1 work fine for me. In case it matters, I m using NASM.
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I am interested in forcing a CPU cache flush in Windows (for benchmarking reasons, I want to emulate starting with no data in CPU cache), preferably a basic C implementation or Win32 call. Is there a ...