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| The '''flags''' register, also called '''processor status''' or just '''P''', is one of the six architectural registers on the 6502 family CPU.
| | #REDIRECT [[Status flags]] |
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| There are six bits in P:
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| <pre>
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| 7654 3210
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| || |||+- C: 1 if last addition or shift resulted in a carry, or if
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| || ||| last subtraction resulted in
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| || ||+-- Z: 1 if last operation resulted in a 0 value
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| || |+--- I: Interrupt priority level
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| || | (0: /IRQ and /NMI get through; 1: only /NMI gets through)
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| || +---- D: 1 to make ADC and SBC use binary-coded decimal arithmetic
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| || (ignored on second-source 6502 like that in the NES)
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| |+-------- V: 1 if last ADC or SBC resulted in signed overflow, or
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| | D6 from last BIT read as 0
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| +--------- N: Set to bit 7 of the last operation
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| </pre>
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| == The B flag ==
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| There is no "B flag". Bits 5 and 4 of flags do not exist.
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| Two signals and two instructions can push flags to the stack. When they do so, they fill the unused bits with the following:
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| {| class="tabular"
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| ! Instruction || Bits 5 and 4 || Side effects after pushing
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| | PHP || 11 || None
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| | BRK || 11 || I is set to 1
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| | /[[IRQ]] || 10 || I is set to 1
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| | /[[NMI]] || 10 || I is set to 1
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| |}
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| Two instructions (PLP and RTI) pull a byte from the stack and set flags, but they ignore bits 5 and 4.
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| The only way for an IRQ handler to distinguish /IRQ from BRK is to read the flags from the stack and test bit 4.
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| The slowness of this is one reason why BRK wasn't used as a syscall mechanism.
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