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The STOS instruction copies the data item from AL (for bytes - STOSB), AX (for words - STOSW) or EAX (for doublewords - STOSD) to the destination string, pointed to by ES:DI in memory.
The following example demonstrates use of the LODS and STOS instruction to convert an upper case string to its lower case value −
section .text
global _start ;must be declared for using gcc
_start: ;tell linker entry point
mov ecx, len
mov esi, s1
mov edi, s2
loop_here:
lodsb
or al, 20h
stosb
loop loop_here
cld
rep movsb
mov edx,20 ;message length
mov ecx,s2 ;message to write
mov ebx,1 ;file descriptor (stdout)
mov eax,4 ;system call number (sys_write)
int 0x80 ;call kernel
mov eax,1 ;system call number (sys_exit)
int 0x80 ;call kernel
section .data
s1 db 'HELLO, WORLD', 0 ;source
len equ $-s1
section .bss
s2 resb 20 ;destination
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