Technical Explanation of Conditional Byte Set Instructions (SETcc) in Assembly Language

Technical Explanation of Conditional Byte Set Instructions (SETcc) in Assembly Language

1. Instruction Overview Starting from the Intel 80386 processor, the instruction set introduced a very useful set of conditional byte set instructions (<span>SETcc</span>). The function of this set of instructions is not to perform program flow jumps, but to set a byte value to 1 or 0 based on the current state of the CPU … Read more