What is the difference of idivl and divl?

Question

I have these expressions:

cltd
idivl   (%ecx)

when dividing by an int, and:

movl    $0, %edx
divl    (%ecx)

when dividing an unsigned long

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '12 at 05:39

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idiv performs signed division, div performs unsigned division.

answered Sep 19 '12 at 05:39

DCoder

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