Re: A86: Need more help


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Re: A86: Need more help




In a message dated 12/11/99 7:50:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
chrisman@cts.com writes:

> Sorry to have posted so many "I need help"-ish posts, but as I'm really new
>  to asm, everything seems longer than it should, at least in comparison to
>  other languages I've ever programmed.  Thus, I just have one quick 
question.
>  If I wanted to add a number (say, 6) to the E register, is there a faster
>  way than this to do it?
>  
>   ld a,e         ;\
>   add a,6      ; >Adds 6 to e
>   ld e,a         ;/
>  

Nope.  That's as fast as it gets unless you're going up or down by 1 in which 
case you'd use dec e or inc e.


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