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Assembly Question - how best to reverse the carry flag?


vdub_bobby

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So normal 16-bit subtraction with carry:

 

sec
lda NumberOne
sbc #CONSTANT
sta NumberOne
lda NumberTwo
sbc #0
sta NumberTwo

But I have a situation where I am adding to NumberOne but I still want to decrement NumberTwo when NumberOne overflows

clc
lda NumberOne
adc #CONSTANT
sta NumberOne
lda NumberThree
sbc #0		;--won't work !!
sta NumberThree

So I've come up with these two ways:

    ;Method #1
    clc
    lda NumberOne
    adc #CONSTANT
    sta NumberOne
    lda NumberTwo
    bcs ClearCarry
    clc
    .byte $24    ;--skip (via BIT ZP) over next byte
ClearCarry
    sec
    sbc #0
    sta NumberTwo
    
    ;Method #2
    clc
    lda NumberOne
    adc #CONSTANT
    sta NumberOne
    php           ;push processor flags onto stack (carry in lowest bit)
    pla
    eor #1        ;flip it
    lsr           ;and shove it back into the carry flag
    lda NumberTwo
    sbc #0
    sta NumberTwo

Seems like there must be a better way?  Anyone have some sneaky trick to share?

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For the record, though, if you really did want to invert the carry flag, this gem is from one Lee Davison: http://web.archive.org/web/20130212081017/http://mycorner.no-ip.org/6502/shorts/togglecarry.html

 

	ROL	A		; Cb into b0		
	EOR	#$01		; toggle bit
	ROR	A		; b0 into Cb
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