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Instruction general - CMOVcc—Conditional Move

The CMOVcc instructions check the state of one or more of the status flags in the EFLAGS register (CF, OF, PF, SF, and ZF) and perform a move operation if the flags are in a specified state (or condition). A condition code (cc) is associated with each instruction to indicate the condition being tested for. If the condition is not satisfied, a move is not performed and execution continues with the instruction following the CMOVcc instruction. If the condition is false for the memory form, some processor implementations will initiate the load (and discard the loaded data), possible memory faults can be generated. Other processor models will not initiate the load and not generate any faults if the condition is false. These instructions can move a 16- or 32-bit value from memory to a general-purpose register or from one general-purpose register to another. Conditional moves of 8-bit register operands are not supported. The conditions for each CMOVcc mnemonic is given in the description column of the above table. The terms “less” and “greater” are used for comparisons of signed integers and the terms “above” and “below” are used for unsigned integers. Because a particular state of the status flags can sometimes be interpreted in two ways, two mnemonics are defined for some opcodes. For example, the CMOVA (conditional move if above) instruction and the CMOVNBE (conditional move if not below or equal) instruction are alternate mnemonics for the opcode 0F 47H. The CMOVcc instructions are new for the Pentium Pro processor family; however, they may not be supported by all the processors in the family. Software can determine if the CMOVcc instructions are supported by checking the processor’s feature information with the CPUID instruction