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Flags

These live in the F register and are rewritten by arithmetic/logic/shift instructions:

flag mask description set by
Z 0x01 Result is zero. ADD, SUB, AND, OR, XOR, SHL, SHR (and pseudo-instructions that expand to them)
N 0x02 Copies bit 7 (sign) of the 8-bit result. ADD, SUB, AND, OR, XOR, SHL, SHR
C 0x04 Set when an 8-bit result wraps: carry on ADD/SHL/SHR, borrow on SUB. ADD, SUB, SHL, SHR

Notes:

  • Instructions not listed leave flags unchanged.
  • Pseudo-instructions (INC, DEC, CMP, CMPI, shifts) inherit flag behavior from the underlying ops.
  • Flags 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80 are reserved for future use.