The mov that copies

[Sergiu FUNIERU]

The mov mnemonic was one of the hardest to understand.

In my mind, to mov(e) means to copy then to delete the original. It seems that in asm "mov" practically means "copy".

Is any reason for calling the copy mov(e)? Is there any cop mnemonic?

[hutch--]

Sergiu,

You are arguing with history here, the MOV family of mnemonics on x86 entail copy data from the source operand to the destination operand. The term copy is generally a bit wider with many data types and sizes.

[Sergiu FUNIERU]

The term copy is generally a bit wider with many data types and sizes.

Interesting! That's a difference I didn't think of.

[joemc]

When i think copy i think from memory to memory, which is two movs, or a push and a pop. but i can see what you are saying.

[dedndave]

on many non-intel processors, it is LOAD, LD, LOD