Re: A86: sub

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Re: A86: sub


Well if you think about it.....the os of the calc is done with asm and you 
can subtract numer that are greater then 16 bits so there has to be a way.  
And I think that the ops are only 16 bits its been oer a year and i can't 
remember tho.

Andrew
>From: Jeanne9005@aol.com
>Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
>To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: Re: A86: sub
>Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:55:34 EDT
>
>
>I thought that the OPs would only do 16 bit math, not higher..  Is this 
>true, or is the processor capable of math greater than 16 bit?
>
>Glen
>tutorial1.cjb.net
>
>In a message dated Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:58:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>ComAsYuAre@aol.com writes:
>
> >
> > In a message dated 9/18/99 12:20:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > ironman_294@hotmail.com writes:
> >
> > > Ok I might have to subtract numbers that take up more mem then 16 
>bits.
> > And
> > >  as I thought about it I came up with takeing one bit at a time and
> > >  subtracting them.  Will this work or am I just out of my mind (if I 
>am
> > right
> > >
> > >  would I use the carry flag or not).
> > >
> >
> >
> > Um, you'll probably want to use the floating-point OP registers for 
>greater
> > than 16-bit math.  It's a heckuva lot easier than subtracting one bit at 
>a
> > time.
>
>
>

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