What is base register?

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What is base register?..

Answer / res

Base register stores starting address of programme. if we want to relocate programme....just need to change base register content. 

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What is base register?..

Answer / sysprog

The content of a base register is added to a displacement, and/or to the content of an index register, thereby to determine the address of the source or destination memory location upon which the instruction is to act.

When 0 is specified in the base regester position in an instruction, it is not interpreted by the assembler or the machine as a base register or as referencing register 0; in that position it means no base register for that instruction.

A program base register is used in specifying addesses of memory areas within the program, including instructions and storage areas.

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What is base register?..

Answer / anon y mous

This is why you should only hire American programmers that
actually know what they are doing. Enough of the answers
are wrong that it makes me wonder why we think we get our
money's worth when we hire offshore "talent".

Read the IBM z/OS manuals to get the real answer.

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What is base register?..

Answer / x506

In 16-bit mode, the base register, EBX, acts as a general-purpose pointer. Besides the specialized ESI, EDI, and EBP registers, it is the only general-purpose register that can appear in a square-bracket memory access (For example, MOV [BX], AX). In the 32-bit world, however, any register may serve as a memory offset, so the base register is no longer special.

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What is base register?..

Answer / s abbas

It is used to hold a number that can be added or sometimes in subtraction from to the address portion of a computer instruction to form an effective address it is also called index register

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What is base register?..

Answer / gul

base register is used to store address of current memory locations during execution.

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What is base register?..

Answer / supriya tiwari

Base register holds the address of current memory locations..

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What is base register?..

Answer / adnan shah

Base registers are the registers which are used for data movements. It has special adressing abilities. It holds that adress of data which tells that where the data was stored before execution.

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What is base register?..

Answer / justin raj

in addition to serving as a general-purpose data
register,base register can be used for computing the data
memory address

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What is base register?..

Answer / anmol

same to same

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