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Robert AH Prins wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As you may remember, I once posted a message that told you that the
> builtin assembler in TP6 and BP7 allows the use of AAM & AAD with an
> operand, ie AAD 16 will result in "D4h 10h" being generated. If you are
> willing to sacrifice a little compatibility, and are prepared to always
> code AAD 10 & AAM 10, you can use the plain AAD and AAM instructions to
> encode two more useful two-byte (non-operand!) instructions, and one
> that seems to come to mind to me is RDTSC, (OF 31). To make the patch,
> open a backup of your compiler in your favourite hex-editor, search for
> AAD/AAM and then for "D4 0A" (if AAM) or "D5 0A" (if AAM) closely
> following them and replace these two bytes with your favorite two-byte
> Pentium (P2/P3) opcode bytes.
> 
> I tested it on TP6, and it works!! (Which is very, very useful!)
> 
> ********** YOU MUST NOT CHANGE THE ACTUAL MNEMONIC! **********


This seems like an awful lot of work.  Why not just

asm
   db $0f,$31   {rdtsc}
end;

Pete