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Re: [gbadev] Re: The carry flag


of course this might very well be purely academic, but the result is still
incorrect regardless of how you turn it. ((0-0)+0+(c)) should never result
in 1. as for whether you can work around it, that is a different question.
but the fact is that the result is incorrect.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eddie Edwards" <eddie@...>
To: <gbadev@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 5:58 PM
Subject: RE: [gbadev] Re: The carry flag


> > you completely missed my point. i was pointing out the problem with
> > operating the carry bit in this manner.
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> You haven't pointed out any problem at all. What *is* the problem with
> operating the carry bit in this manner?
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> If there's a genuine problem with the ARM architecture that has somehow
gone
> unnoticed for 15 years I'd like to know what it is.
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> Eddie
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... yes, I was taking about the old 6502 (history of the Arm being the replacement for the 6502 in acorn computers) (still it was sbc without the sub etc etc)....
Mike Wynn
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of course this might very well be purely academic, but the result is still incorrect regardless of how you turn it. ((0-0)+0+(c)) should never result in 1. as...
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... Academically, does Peano arithmetic define 'c'? What's incorrect academically is to use the carry flag for anything other than carrying from less...
Damian Yerrick
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Apr 2, 2003
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... This really perplexed me so I tried it out myself as a sanity check. I was unable to reproduce this behaviour either in VBA or on the hardware. ?!?...
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i cant reproduce it either so i probably forgot the s bit or something anyway, cheers all ... From: "Chris Hayton" <chayton@...> To:...
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