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If you do another register display, the ng status code will not appear. Instead, the pl status code will be displayed. A condition describes the state of one or more flags. All conditional operations on the x86 are expressed in terms of conditions. The assembler uses a one or two letter abbreviation to represent a condition. A condition can be represented by multiple abbreviations. For example, AE "above or equal" is the same condition as NB "not below".

The following table lists some common conditions and their meaning. Last operation did not require a carry or borrow. For unsigned integers, this indicates overflow. When treated as signed integer operation, the last operation did not cause an overflow or underflow. Conditions can also be used to compare two values. The cmp instruction compares its two operands, and then sets flags as if subtracted one operand from the other. The following conditions can be used to check the result of cmp value1 , value2.

Conditions are typically used to act on the result of a cmp or test instruction. For example,. If the result of the subtraction is zero, then the zr flag will be set, and the jz condition will be true so the jump will be taken. There are several different addressing modes, but they all take the form T ptr [expr] , where T is some data type see the preceding Data Types section and expr is some expression involving constants and registers. The notation for most modes can be deduced without much difficulty.

The Pentium is dual-issue, which means that it can perform up to two actions in one clock tick. However, the rules on when it is capable of doing two actions at once known as pairing are very complicated. Load, modify, and store instructions can receive a lock prefix, which modifies the instruction as follows:.

Before issuing the instruction, the CPU will flush all pending memory operations to ensure coherency. All data prefetches are abandoned. While issuing the instruction, the CPU will have exclusive access to the bus. The xchg instruction automatically obeys the previous rules whenever it exchanges a value with memory.

Conditional jumps are predicted to be taken or not taken, depending on whether they were taken the last time they were executed. The cache for recording jump history is limited in size. If the CPU does not have a record of whether the conditional jump was taken or not taken the last time it was executed, it predicts backward conditional jumps as taken and forward conditional jumps as not taken. The x86 processor will automatically correct unaligned memory access, at a performance penalty. No exception is raised.

When sharing data between systems, consider applying the workaround consistently. If you use this workaround, conduct sufficient testing and evaluations to mitigate problems caused by different sorting rule versions on multiple systems.

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