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What is tmm register in disassembly
Hi all!
WinDbg (Version 10.0.22000.194 AMD64) displays in disassembly of the crash dump:
xxx!SaveCR0: fffff807`55f5d6d8 0f22c1 mov tmm,rcx fffff807`55f5d6db c3 ret fffff807`55f5d6dc 66666690 xchg ax,ax xxx!ReadCR2: fffff807`55f5d6e0 0f20d0 mov rax,tmm fffff807`55f5d6e3 c3 ret fffff807`55f5d6e4 66666690 xchg ax,ax xxx!SaveCR2: fffff807`55f5d6e8 0f22d1 mov tmm,rcx fffff807`55f5d6eb c3 ret
According to my knowledge, the "0F 22 C1" should be disassembled as "mov cr0, ecx"; "0F 20 D0" as "mov eax, cr2" and "0F 22 D1" as "mov cr2,ecx"
Is it bug in WinDbg or something else?
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Comments
That's an interesting bug. The TMM registers are part of the "Advanced Matrix Extensions", or "AMX". It is a two-dimensional block of registers that can be used for fast matrix multiplies. There's a CR0 bit involved, but your assessment is correct.
Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Hi Tim,
You are correct. The AMX was the first thing that come to my mind. But AMX registers are numbered (tmm0 - tmm7). For this reason I started to disassemble opcodes manually and found that WinDbg apparently have bug in disassembling module. Since we all rely heavily on proper disassembling, it made sense to ask. Maybe someone else has encountered something like this.
Best regards,
Al