the carry flag issue!

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Published on 2010-05-24T19:04:53Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 19:21 UTC
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Suppose AX =FFFE and BX=1234
now if we write cmp ax,bx
(bx will be subtracted from ax and the approprite flages will be updated) now the binary representation of the numbers in ax and bx is given by

    AX =    1111    1111    1111    1110
   BX=     0001    0010    0011    0100


As bx will be subtracted from ax so we have to negate bx (as Result= ax+(-bx)) so the negated bx (2's complement of bx ) is given by.

BX=    1110    1101    1100    1100

Now we add both ax and bx (as subtraction is implemented by addition in computer)

    AX=   1111    1111    1111    1110
   BX=   1110    1101    1100    1100
    ------------------------------------
      1  1110    1101    1100    1010 

Now as you can see the result is of 17 bits now the 17th bit should go into carry flage, but when i checked it the carry flag is 0 that is CF=0 why?

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