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The Processor Status

And The FLAGS Register


Outline

• The FLAGS register


• Overflow
• How instructions affect the flags
• The DEBUG program

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The FLAGS Register

• In 8086, the processor state is implemented as nine individual


bits called flags
• Each decision made by 8086 is based on the values of these
flags
• The flags are placed in the FLAGS register
• Two types of flags: Status flags and control flags
• Status flags reflect the result of a computation. They are
located in bits 0,2,4,6,7 and 11
• Control flags enable or disable certain operations of the
processor. They are located in bits 8,9 and 10
• The other bits have no significance

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The FLAGS Register
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

OF DF IF TF SF ZF AF PF CF

Bit Name Symbol


0 Carry Flag CF
2 Parity Flag PF
4 Auxiliary Carry Flag AF
6 Zero Flag ZF Status Flag
7 Sign Flag SF
11 Overflow Flag OF
8 Trap Flag TF
9 Interrupt Flag IF Control Flag
10 Direction Flag DF
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The Status Flags

• Carry Flag(CF)
• CF=1 if there is a carry out in the MSB on addition, if there is a borrow into
the MSB on subtraction
• Otherwise CF=0
• It is also affected by shift and rotate instructions

• Parity Flag(PF)
• PF=1 if the low byte of a result has even parity
• PF=0 if the low byte of a result has odd parity

• Auxiliary Carry Flag(AF)


• AF=1 if there is a carry out from bit 3 on addition or a borrow into bit 3 on
subtraction
• Otherwise AF=0
• AF is used in BCD operations

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The Status Flags

• Zero Flag(ZF)
• ZF=1 for a zero result
• ZF=0 for a non-zero result

• Sign Flag(SF)
• SF=1 if the MSB of a result is 1 that means the result is negative
• SF=0 if the MSB of a result is 0 that means the result is positive

• Overflow Flag(OF)
• OF=1 if signed overflow occured
• Otherwise OF=0

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Overflow

• The range of signed numbers that can be represented by a


• 16-bit word is -32768 to 32767
• 8-bit byte is -128 to 127

• The range of unsigned numbers that can be represented by a


• 16-bit word is 0 to 65535
• 8-bit byte is 0 to 255

• If the result of an operation falls out of these ranges then overflow occurs
and the truncated result that is saved will be incorrect
• When we perform an arithmetic operation such as addition there are four
possible outcomes:
• No overflow
• Signed overflow only
• Unsigned overflow only
• Both signed and unsigned overflows

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Example of Unsigned
Overflow Only

• Suppose AX contains FFFFh(-1), BX contains 0001h(1). Add the contents


of AX and BX
• Solution
ADD AX,BX
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

+ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

• If it is an unsigned interpretation the correct answer 10000h=65535 but


this is out of range for a word operation
• A 1 is carried out of the MSB and the answer stored in AX is 0000h which
is wrong so unsigned overflow occurs
• But signed overflow does not occur as the stored answer is correct as a
signed number

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Example of Signed
Overflow Only

• Suppose AX contains 7FFFh(32767), BX contains 7FFFh(32767). Add


the contents of AX and BX
• Solution
ADD AX,BX

0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

+ 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0

• If it is a signed interpretation the answer is FFFEh =-2 but this


incorrect as the result should be 65534. So signed overflow occurs
• The unsigned interpretation of FFFEh is 65534, which is the right
answer. So unsigned overflow does not occur

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Overflow Indicates by
Processor

• The processor sets OF=1 for signed overflow


• The processor sets CF=1 for unsigned overflow

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Overflow Occur
Determination by Processor
• Unsigned overflow
• On addition when there is a carry out in the MSB. This means the result
is larger than the biggest unsigned number
• On subtraction when there is a borrow in the MSB. This means the
correct answer is smaller than 0
• Signed overflow
• On addition the numbers with the same sign produces result of
different sign
• On subtraction the result has a different sign than expected
• Subtraction of numbers with different signs means addition of number
with same sign.

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How Instructions Affect
the Flags

Instruction Affected flags


MOV/XCHG None
ADD/SUB all
INC/DEC All except CF
NEG All
CF=1 unless result is 0,
OF=1 if word operand is
8000h or byte operand is
80h

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How Instructions Affect the
Flags
• ADD AX,BX where AX contains FFFFh and BX contains FFFFh
• Solution

F F F F h

+ F F F F h

1 F F F E h

• The result stored in AX is FFFEh = 1111 1111 1111 1110


• SF=1 because the MSB is 1
• PF=0 because there are odd number of 1 bits in the low byte of the result
• ZF=0 because the result is non zero
• CF=1 because there is a carry out of the MSB on addition
• OF=0 There is a carry into the MSB and also a carry out

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Assignment 05
• For each of the following instructions, give the new
destination contents and the new settings of CF,SF,ZF,PF and
OF. Suppose that the flags are initially 0 in each part of this
question
• ADD AX, BX where AX contains 7FFFh and BX contains 0001h
• DEC AL where Al contains 00h
• NEG AL where AL contains 7Fh
• XCHG AX, BX where AX contains 1ABCh and BX contains 712Ah

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