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Re: Question on conditional branch
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:58 am
by BigEd
Well that's awkward - if the tutorial is wrong then we need to fix it. I now see Bruce's document
here says
The N flag contains most significant bit of the of the subtraction result. This is only occasionally useful. However, it is NOT the signed comparison result, as is sometimes claimed, as the following examples illustrate...
Re: Question on conditional branch
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:57 pm
by barrym95838
Bruce elucidates BDD's point
here and helpfully offers some work-arounds in that same article.
[oops, I didn't read Ed's reply before posting ...
... I still believe that I may have added some value, so I'll leave it.]
Re: Question on conditional branch
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:47 am
by BigDumbDinosaur
[oops, I didn't read Ed's reply before posting ...
... I still believe that I may have added some value, so I'll leave it.]
That's okay. All of us are, or have been, honorary employees of the Department of Redundancy Department. 
Re: Question on conditional branch
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:52 am
by Sean
[oops, I didn't read Ed's reply before posting ...
... I still believe that I may have added some value, so I'll leave it.]
That's okay. All of us are, or have been, honorary employees of the Department of Redundancy Department.
They're responsible for ATM machines and hot water heaters, right?