CH> or turning a REP MOVSW into a REP MOVSD (it
 > would
 > have to find where you assigned CX as well)...
 CH> CX does not need to change for any form of the rep instruction. If
 CH> what you are trying to say is that rep movsd uses ecx, guess again. it
 CH> does not.
 however rep movsd will require cx to hold numbytes/4 rather than numbytes/2 
for rep movsw =)
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