DATA TYPES OF 80386 PROCESSOR

The 80386 supports the following  data types they are

•  Bit
•  Bit Field: A group of at the most 32 bits (4bytes)
•  Bit String: A string of contiguous bits of maximum 4Gbytes in length.
•  Signed Byte: Signed byte data
•  Unsigned Byte: Unsigned byte data.
•  Integer word: Signed 16-bit data.
•  Long Integer: 32-bit signed data represented in 2's complement form.
•  Unsigned Integer Word: Unsigned 16-bit data
•  Unsigned Long Integer: Unsigned 32-bit data
•  Signed Quad Word: A signed 64-bit data or four word data.
•  Unsigned Quad Word: An unsigned 64-bit data.
•  Offset: 16/32-bit displacement that points a memory location using any of the addressing modes.
•  Pointer: This consists of a pair of 16-bit selector and 16/32-bit offset.
•  Character: An ASCII equivalent to any of the alphanumeric or control characters.
•  Strings: These are the sequences of bytes, words or double words. A string may contain minimum one byte and maximum 4 Gigabytes.
• BCD: Decimal digits from 0-9 represented by unpacked bytes.
• Packed BCD: This represents two packed BCD digits using a byte, i.e. from 00 to 99.

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