now that its been mentioned... i actually chopped off everything before and after the instruction set and made a new PDF out of it...
might be useful. i generally only have to look at it when BCC or BCS instructions come up... they have corresponding BLO and i think BHS "alternatives", it's sometimes easier to think about when a compare is done in terms of "lower" or "higher/same" instead of "did the carry bit get set"?
sometimes, you'll see a load, immediately followed by a BCS/BCC, which confused me for a long time.... i wasn't sure how the carry bit could ever get set from simply loading an accumulator... turns out, when loading an accumulator, the carry bit can be set based on the most significant bit of the byte loaded.... it's normally used to simplify the code a little bit to prevent an unnecessary compare being done when you have 2's compliment values(i think that's the only time i see it).
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