Understanding operand forms

Question

9(%rax, %rdx): What happens here? Is 9 the offset? and do you add the two registers together?

I'm reading Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaran's "Computer Systems - A programmer's Persepctive"

At page 209 we are presented with a table (Operand forms):

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It's then possible to do a little assignment where I have to fill the empty table with values. I tried my best but am stuck as you can see:

9(%rax, %rdx). Is the 9 the offset? And do you add the two registers here? Not quite sure what to add. I would really appreciate if someone could walk me through the last empty values I need to fill.

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Below is the solutions:

Answer 1

Welcome to the wonderful world of AT&T assembly! The 9 in 9(%rax, %rdx) is commonly called displacement or sometimes base, and you should indeed just add all three values:

9+rax+rdx = 9+0x100+0x3 = 0x10C

This address is then dereferenced so the value 0x11 is loaded from the address 0x10C.

I would recommend reading the Solaris x86 Assembly Language Reference Manual if you plan to stick with AT&T, or just switch to Intel syntax since it's much more widely used (especially in processor documentation).