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The other description on [[CPU ALL]] is pretty good, but I wanted to present the flags in a way that conceptually makes clear that in the processor, they are just 6 separate flags with no ordering in a byte, and that it's when they're ''copied'' to a byte in memory that the other two bits of the byte are given values. I tried to emphasize that the memory version is a copy, which conceptually avoids one thinking of the copy as the actual flags. --[[user:Blargg|Blargg]] 08:37, 5 November 2010 | The other description on [[CPU ALL]] is pretty good, but I wanted to present the flags in a way that conceptually makes clear that in the processor, they are just 6 separate flags with no ordering in a byte, and that it's when they're ''copied'' to a byte in memory that the other two bits of the byte are given values. I tried to emphasize that the memory version is a copy, which conceptually avoids one thinking of the copy as the actual flags. --[[user:Blargg|Blargg]] 08:37, 5 November 2010 | ||
:So can you think of some way to divide the description between [[Status flags]] and [[CPU status flag behavior]] so that things aren't unnecessarily covered twice? --[[User:Tepples|Tepples]] 16:44, 5 November 2010 (UTC) | :So can you think of some way to divide the description between [[Status flags]] and [[CPU status flag behavior]] so that things aren't unnecessarily covered twice? --[[User:Tepples|Tepples]] 16:44, 5 November 2010 (UTC) | ||
:I don't understand the distinction between six flags that are copied in a certain order and there being a byte somewhere on the chip with the flags ordered that way. As far as I can tell, the two concepts are entirely equivalent. - [[User:Furrykef|Furrykef]] 21:53, 21 March 2011 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 21:53, 21 March 2011
The other description on CPU ALL is pretty good, but I wanted to present the flags in a way that conceptually makes clear that in the processor, they are just 6 separate flags with no ordering in a byte, and that it's when they're copied to a byte in memory that the other two bits of the byte are given values. I tried to emphasize that the memory version is a copy, which conceptually avoids one thinking of the copy as the actual flags. --Blargg 08:37, 5 November 2010
- So can you think of some way to divide the description between Status flags and CPU status flag behavior so that things aren't unnecessarily covered twice? --Tepples 16:44, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
- I don't understand the distinction between six flags that are copied in a certain order and there being a byte somewhere on the chip with the flags ordered that way. As far as I can tell, the two concepts are entirely equivalent. - Furrykef 21:53, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
