[fear91]

You can shrink it further by doing xorl reg, reg. On x86, the upper 32 bits are cleared for you when using 32 bit opcodes. No need to do a 64-bit reg, reg xor.

Instead of doing cmp $0, %eax, you can use test eax, eax - that's another low hanging fruit.

It seems that you could also preset a dedicated reg to 0 and another to 1, further shaving a few bytes.

[meribold]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll definitely look into those. I'd been hoping posting on HN would result in being able to shave off yet a few more bytes.

[userbinator]

Also learn the string instructions --- I can see plenty of places where a lodsb would help greatly.