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LOOP            Loop on Count                        Flags: Not altered

LOOP location                   Loop
LOOPE/LOOPZ location            Loop While Equal/Zero
LOOPNE/LOOPNZ location          Loop While Not Equal/Zero

        Logic
        ; loop              ; loope                 ; loopne
        eCX . eCX - 1       eCX . eCX - 1           eCX . eCX - 1
        if eCX <> 0         if eCX <> 0 AND ZF=1    if eCX <> 0 AND ZF=0
           JMP location        JMP location            JMP location
        endif               endif                   endif

    The LOOP instructions are conditional jumps that use the count
    value in eCX (LOOPE/LOOPNE also use the zero flag) to determine
    whether a code loop should be continued or terminated.

    All LOOPs automatically decrement eCX and terminate when eCX = 0.
    The operand, a short code label, must be in the range -128 to +127
    bytes from the next instruction.

    If the address-size attribute is 16 bits, the CX register is used
    as the count register; otherwise, ECX is used (80386+).


        Example:        sub     ax,ax
                        jcxz    skip    ; Don't execute 65,535 times
                    again:
                        add     ax,[bx]
                        stosw
                        inc     bx
                        inc     bx
                        loop    again
                        mov     [looped],1
                    skip:

        Example:        mov     cx,127
                        mov     si,0081h
                    blanks:
                        lodsb
                        cmp     al,20h
                        loopz   blanks


    Note
    Some assemblers support the following LOOP extensions that force
    the use of CX (loopw forms) or ECX (loopd forms) regardless of the
    code segment's size attribute (80386+):

        loopw,loopwe,loopwne,loopwnz,loopwz
        loopd,loopde,loopdne,loopdnz,loopdz


    Opcode      Format
    E0 cb       LOOPNE rel8
    E1 cb       LOOPE rel8
    E2 cb       LOOP rel8


    Length and timing
    Operands    Bytes   8088    186     286     386     486     Pentium
LOOP  short       2     5/17    5/15    4/8+m   11+m    6/7     5/6  NP
LOOPE short       2     6/18    5/16    4/8     11+m    6/9     7/8  NP
LOOPNE short      2     5/19    5/16    4/8     11+m    6/9     7/8  NP