[Coco] Assembler Question???

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 2 Sep 2009 at 11:49, William Astle wrote:

> jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> > That is what I would expect. To better qualify what my question better is what is the 
> > binary code generated from a SUBA #1. My suspicion is;
> > 
> > When SUBA #1 ( immedate mode)  is assembled and it is stored in binary form as
> > 
> > $80 $FF instead of $80 $01. 
> > 
> > 
> > Why I think this is because of the two things. One from what I remember  from teh 
> > MC6800 schematic, there was an internal adder but no subtractor. Subtraction was done 
> > by 2's compliment. Also by the branch relative instruction offset byte(s) are stored as 2's 
> > compliment so that a simple add is performed and the adition is unsigned addition.
> > 
> > Also the Motorola Freeware Assembler mentions that arithmetic is done is 2's 
> > complement.  Thus this implies that subtraction is done with 2's complement. 
> > 
> > I can be wrong about this and to do addition internally, one port to the ALU has a 2's 
> > complement generator at its input to do subtraction by addition
> > 
> > Any way I can implement a 2's complementor and then do add and either invoke it or 
> > not. 
> 
> The assembler does not do anything special with SUB instructions. SUBA 
> #1 is encoded as $80 $01. After all, if it did expect something special, 
> SUB instructions would not work with data accessed via indexing and so on!
> 
> Note that both SUB and ADD take the same number of clock cycles so 
> whatever the CPU does internally fits in a clock cycle.
> 
> 
> -- 
> William Astle


William

Turning on or off a 2's complementor internally is easy. Just takes up a bit more area on 
the chip and no increase in time. 

thanks
james