Greetings.

While using D iasm I noticed something interesting.

I was trying to get instruction pointer by using call trick and noticed that in opposite to nasm (and probably others assemblers) D iasm uses $ as next instruction pointer.

Documentation mentions that dolar sign is usable in Jcc (or jmp only? not sure) and call instructions.

It doesn't work.
http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/5c9c3d6b

call $ ; this should jump to next instruction and store RIP on stack
       ; if I understand correctly?
pop RAX;

Compiler slaps me with information that $ is bad operand for call instruction.

Am I doing something wrong or it is a bug?
Thanks!

On Monday, 4 March 2013 at 03:30:30 UTC, nazriel wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> While using D iasm I noticed something interesting.
>
> I was trying to get instruction pointer by using call trick and noticed that in opposite to nasm (and probably others assemblers) D iasm uses $ as next instruction pointer.
>
> Documentation mentions that dolar sign is usable in Jcc (or jmp only? not sure) and call instructions.
>
> It doesn't work.
> http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/5c9c3d6b
>
> call $ ; this should jump to next instruction and store RIP on stack
>        ; if I understand correctly?
> pop RAX;
>
> Compiler slaps me with information that $ is bad operand for call instruction.
>
> Am I doing something wrong or it is a bug?
> Thanks!

Will answer myself :p
s/call $/call near ptr $
fixed the thing.

Sorry for distributions