Subject: RE: [stella] some little 6502 questions (fwd) From: Matt Pritchard <MPritchard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 17:48:32 -0600 |
> Is there a faster way than this to get the absolute value of the accumulator? > > (...) > > BPL plus > EOR #$FF > CLC > ADC #1 > plus: >Assuming that you mean A is an 8 bit signed number (-128 to +127), and that >you just want to get rid of the sign, try this: >AND #%01111111 ; this should mask off the sign bit > ; note that abs(-128) would be 0 using this method Uhhhmmm! I don't think this will work. For signed 8-bit numbers: -1 = %11111111 -2 = %11111110 -3 = %11111101 etc... so -1 AND %0111111 = 127 (incorrect!) i.e. %11111111 AND %01111111 = %01111111 The reason for two's complement notation is that you can do 36 + -2 = 34 (%00100100 + %11111110) and it works... Matt Pritchard graphics_grunt@ensemble_studios -- Archives available at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ E-mail UNSUBSCRIBE in the body to stella-request@xxxxxxxxxxx to be removed.
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