x86 assembly question

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Published on 2010-05-03T12:10:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 14:58 UTC
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This is my assembly program which is just a function to swap *x *y. So first argument from main is address of x which is in 8(%ebp) and second one is address of y is in 12(%ebp). The program does swap x and y. I need 7 lines for doing this. can you make it 6 lines and there is a condition you can use only %eax, %ecx, and %edx 3 registers. I think about it so much, but I can't make it 6 lines. There must be a way, isn't it? This might be not a big deal, but if there is a way to get it in 6lines I want to know.

movl 8(%ebp), %eax
movl (%eax), %ecx
movl 12(%ebp), %edx
movl (%edx), %eax
movl %ecx, (%edx)
movl 8(%ebp), %ecx
movl %eax, (%ecx)

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