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> Time to use the carry bit for what it was meant to do. Adding two
8 bit numbers can produce a 9-bit result. That 9th bit is stored
in the carry flag. The <TT
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carry value to its result, as well. Thus, carries work just as
we'd expect them to. Suppose we're storing two 16-bit values, low
byte first, in $C100-1 and $C102-3. To add them together and
store them in $C104-5, this is very easy:
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LDA $C100
ADC $C102
STA $C104
LDA $C101
ADC $C103
STA $C105</PRE
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> Subtraction is identical, but you set the carry bit first
with <TT
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carry&#8212;think about how the unsigned compare works if this
puzzles you) and, of course, using the <TT
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instruction instead of <TT
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> The carry/borrow bit is set appropriately to let you continue,
too. As long as you just keep working your way up to bytes of
ever-higher significance, this generalizes to 24 (do it three
times instead of two) or 32 (four, etc.) bit integers.
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