NEG Instruction

The NEG instruction (negate) reverses the sign of a number by converting the number to its two's complement.

NEG — Two's Complement Negation

Usage: NEG dest

Flag O D I S Z A P C
Result *     * * * * *

Calculate the two's complement of the destination operand, and stores the result in the destination.
Clocks
Operands 286 386 486 Size Bytes
reg 2 2 1 2
mem 7 6 3 2-4

†Execution of NEG instruction causes the value of its operand to be replaced by its negative.

 – X  –[X + 0]  – X 
 
 
 .data
 
 
 X   SWORD  -1234h
 
 
 .code
 
 
 neg    X
 
 
 movsx  eax, X
 
 
 call   WriteHex
 
 
 
 .data
 
 
 X   SWORD  0EDCCh
 
 
 .code
 
 
 neg    X+0
 
 
 movsx  eax, X
 
 
 call   WriteHex
 
 
 
 .data
 
 
 X   SWORD  0h, 0EDCCh
 
 
 .code
 
 
 mov   ebx, OFFSET X


 neg   [ebx]


 mov   eax, [ebx]


 call  WriteHex
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