Re: A86: 16-bit Rotations

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: 16-bit Rotations
From: rabidcow@juno.com
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:31:48 -0700
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

i always thought it was carry, which seems completely backwards.
rr & rl rotate through/including carry, while rrc & rlc don't
circular makes more sense to me (except that technically, neither is
circular...)

-josh

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:33:34 -0600 "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
writes:
> 
> Every instruction reference I've seen is circular and not carry.  
> Though,
> either way makes sense.
> 
> > > rlc and rrc are rotate left carry and rotate right carry
> >
> > I always thought rlc and rrc stood for "Rotate Left Circular" and 
> "Rotate
> > Right Circular"?  Maybe I just made that up cause it made sense 
> when I
> first
> > learned the mnemonic, since the bits kinda "circle" around their 
> given
> > address/register... ;)
> 
> 
> 
> 

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