## ALP Programming Guide and Reference

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### Description

The JMP instruction transfers control to a different point in the instruction stream without recording return information.

The action of the various forms of the instruction are shown below.

Jumps with destinations of type r/m16, r/m32, rel16,, and rel32 are near jumps and do not involve changing the segment register value.

The JMP rel16 and JMP rel32 forms of the instruction add an offset to the address of the instruction following the JMP to determine the destination. The rel16 form is used when the instruction's operand-size attribute is 16- bits (segment size attribute 16 only); rel32 is used when the operand-size attribute is 32-bits (segment size attribute 32 only). The result is stored in the 32-bit EIP register. With rel16, the upper 16-bits of the EIP register are cleared, which results in an offset whose value does not exceed 16-bits.

The JMP r/m16 and JMP r/m32 forms specify a register or memory location from which the absolute offset from the procedure is fetched. The offset fetched from r/m is 32-bits for an operand-size attribute of 32-bits (r/m32 ), or 16-bits for an operand-size attribute of 16-bits (r/m16).

The JMP ptr16:16 and ptr16:32 forms of the instruction use a four-byte or six-byte operand as a long pointer to the destination. The JMP m16:16 and m16:32 forms fetch the long pointer from the memory location specified ( indirection). In Real Address Mode or Virtual 8086 Mode, the long pointer provides 16-bits for the CS register and 16 or 32-bits for the EIP register (depending on the operand-size attribute). In Protected Mode, both long pointer forms consult the Access Rights (AR) byte in the descriptor indexed by the selector part of the long pointer. Depending on the value of the AR byte, the jump will perform one of the following types of control transfers :

A jump to a code segment at the same privilege level

A task switch

For more information on protected mode control transfers, refer to the Intel documentation.