Bash my code. It works but is it done right?

[Rob Neff]

You're quite welcome, Joe.  It's very evident that you are experienced and are simply trying to learn the x86 way of doing things.
And I highly doubt that an assembler book titled "From MVS to x86 in 24 Hours"  exists to plug in the knowledge gaps. 

[JoeCoder]

Haha yeah I actually said to myself I should write a book like that. Then I realized there would probably only be like 5 customers, so I guess I won't do it after all.

But I may try to throw together a rosetta stone of assembly in the future since I am also wanting to learn Sparc. It might be good for my own learning to write down how stuff is done on various platforms and OS even if nobody else cares.