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CHAPTER 18 — Set Instructions

This chapter describes two more conditional branch instructions and two conditional set instructions. Set instructions set a register to 1 or 0 depending on whether a condition is true or false.

These new instructions help you implement loops and branches. But this is still a difficult task. Study this chapter to gain insight into what compilers do for you.

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QUESTION 1:

What two conditional branch instructions did the previous chapter discuss?


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