Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Wed Dec 7 22:40:09 CST 2005


> > keeping things like the DAA instruction intact and supporting a bunch
> > of do-nothing instructions like MOV DL,DL.
> FYI, that most certainly doesn't just "do nothing."  It updates the flags
> based on the contents of the DL register, and you could do a conditional
> jump based on the results.

NO, it doesn't.
But OR DL,DL  or AND DL,DL would.





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