Falsies

COTTRELL, JAMES cottrell at nbs-vms.ARPA
Sat Sep 14 04:36:54 AEST 1985


/*
> Wrong you are.  Look at the 68000 instruction set.  In it you'll find a
> couple of instructions called DBT and DBF, which are "decrement and
> branch on true" and "decrement and branch on false".  While not a pure
> one condition branch (because of the decrement and test counter), the
> assembly language does have a concept of absolute truth.
> -- 
> Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA

DBT, & DBF do not *test* anything for truth, they *assume* it. They are
not *conditional* branches (as I mentioned in my origional statement).
DBT *always* branches while DBF *never* branches.

	jim		cottrell at nbs
*/
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