Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Sylvain Munaut wrote:* 2 flags Carry & Zero for testing.
BTW, it depends on the compare (and branch) instructions whether just two flags are sufficient.
That's true. MIPS for example seems to get by with no flags, although it makes multi-word addition/subtraction sequences a bit large.
David Daney