[Coco] Branch Instruction Summary

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Allen Huffman,

bhi branch if higher (unsigned >)
bgt branch if greater than (signed >)

-John Mark Mobley

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Subject: RE: [Coco] Branch Instruction Summary

Allen Huffman,

    lda unsignedTemp1
    cmpa unsignedTemp2
    bhi skip1
    lda signedTemp1
    cmpa signedTemp2
    bgt skip2

You do not have to tell add, sub, and cmp if you are working with signed or unsigned numbers.
But bhi is for unsigned numbers and bgt is for signed numbers.

-John Mark Mobley