ni...@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
And, which I guess is more relevant in the sub_ddmmss context, it also
means that there's little need for separate instructions for adding and
subtracting constants.
The error we struck here for ARM and (one of the errors) for PPC was
that we added 0 instead of subtracting zero, the latter meaning adding
~0 + 1.
Using the ARM "subs rd,rm,imm12" instruction, we compute
{cout, rd} = rm + ~imm + 1
while the "adds rd,rm,imm12" instruction, we compute
{cout, rd} = rm + imm
. which is quite different. The former will for example always set
cout when rm = imm = 0 as in Vincent's example. The latter will never
set carry when imm = 0 or rm = 0;
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