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by razorfishsl
Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:51 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: RTS after branching possible?
Replies: 7
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Re: RTS after branching possible?

Welcome razorfishsl! Yes, jedSavage, like razorfishsl said, JSR, RTS, and RTI can be used to pull various not-so-obvious tricks. The processor doesn't care where you've been. When it sees RTS, it just pulls the top two bytes of the page-1 hardware stack (typically put there by JSR but not ...
by razorfishsl
Tue Oct 15, 2019 4:03 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: RTS after branching possible?
Replies: 7
Views: 2651

Re: RTS after branching possible?

Two points:

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Read the actual write up about "RTS", the CPU does not actually "remember" the flow of the program as if it is a sentient being, it just follows the flow of the instruction execution.

Technically speaking yes "RTS" is used to return from a subroutine call.. but it's all a matter of ...