Practice Equality Flag (2.1.4) - Signed Arithmetic and Overflow - Computer Organisation and Architecture

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Question 1.
What does the equality flag indicate?
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Think about comparisons in programming.
Question 2.
What happens to the equality flag when two numbers are not equal?
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Consider the definition of equality.
3Question 3.
What does the equality flag represent?
- A. Overflow status
- B. Operand equality
- C. Sign of the result
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Think about what the flag is checking.
4Question 4.
True or False: The carry flag indicates if overflow has occurred.
- True
- False
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Relate carry to exceeding limits.
Question 5.
If you add two signed 8-bit integers whose binary representations are 11001100 and 00110011, what flags are set or reset?
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Perform the addition and observe the binary output.
Question 6.
How would the assembly language handle multiple comparisons using the equality flag?
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Think about how conditional statements dictate program flow.

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