8086 LOOP Instruction 
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Murugan Andezuthu Dharmaratnam | 
13 February 2021 | 
4888
13 February 2021 | 4888
Loop instruction is a Transfer Of Control Instruction in 8086 assembly language. Loop instructin transfers the control to a specific label or jumps to specific label If CX is not equal to zero after auto decrement. Its used for looping though a set of instructions and you can specify the number of times the loop have to execute in the CX register. This instruction does not affect any flag.
Algorithm
Decrease CX, jump to label if CX not zero.
CX = CX - 1 if CX <> 0 then jump else no jump, continue
Sample Code
In the below code we will try to print hello world 10 times
.model tiny
.code
org 100h
main proc near
mov cx,10d
loop1:
push cx ; Best practice, I am pushing the value of cx to the stack and poping it out just
; before the loop instruction, This is done to avoid cx from being modified by
; the set of instructions below between the label loop1 and loop instruction
mov ah,09h ; dos function to print a string
mov dx,offset message ; memory location of message to print
int 21h ; dos interrupt 21h
pop cx
loop loop1 ; here the value of cx is decremented by 1 and if the value of cx is not zero after decrement then control is transfered to loop1
mov ah,4ch ; dos funcion to terminate and return to dos
mov al,00
int 21h ; dos interrupt 21h
ret
endp
message db 'hello world',0ah,0dh,'$' ; string ends with $, 0ah is carriage return, 0dh is line feed
end main