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1990-02-15
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;
; *** Listing 13-2 ***
;
; Generates the cumulative exclusive-or of all bytes in a
; 64-byte block of memory by replicating the exclusive-or
; code 64 times and then executing all 64 instances in a
; row without branching.
;
jmp Skip
;
; The 64-byte block for which to generate the cumulative
; exclusive-or.
;
X=1
ByteArray label byte
rept 64
db X
X=X+1
endm
;
; Generates the cumulative exclusive-or of all bytes in a
; 64-byte memory block.
;
; Input:
; SI = pointer to start of 64-byte block for which to
; calculate cumulative exclusive-or
;
; Output:
; AH = cumulative exclusive-or of all bytes in the
; 64-byte block
;
; Registers altered: AX, SI
;
CumulativeXor:
sub ah,ah ;initialize our cumulative XOR to 0
rept 64
lodsb ;get the next byte and
xor ah,al ; XOR it into the cumulative result
endm
ret
;
Skip:
call ZTimerOn
cld
mov si,offset ByteArray
;point to the 64-byte block
call CumulativeXor ;get the cumulative XOR
call ZTimerOff