[SOLVED] Why cant operations like ADD be performed on two memory locations in 8086

#1 (**permalink**) 06-10-2007, 05:42 PM

assembly programming? One of the operands has to be a register. This seems to be a huge incovenience to programmers.

The only reason I can imagine is that the processor designers wanted to discourage programmers from accessing memory often.

Smutty · #2 (**permalink**) 06-10-2007, 05:43 PM

This is machine language we're talking about which means each statement you write will map to an instruction. How do you expect to perform an ADD on two memory locations?

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