AAS

ASCII Adjust AL After Subtraction

stableVMJITAOTinstruction

Encodings

Measured cost

Not measured: it does not run on 64-bit processors.

Flags named

• CF Carry
• PF Parity
• AF Auxiliary carry
• ZF Zero
• SF Sign
• OF Overflow

Description#

Adjusts the result of the subtraction of two unpacked BCD values to create a unpacked BCD result. The AL register is the implied source and destination operand for this instruction. The AAS instruction is only useful when it follows a SUB instruction that subtracts (binary subtraction) one unpacked BCD value from another and stores a byte result in the AL register. The AAA instruction then adjusts the contents of the AL register to contain the correct 1-digit unpacked BCD result.

If the subtraction produced a decimal carry, the AH register decrements by 1, and the CF and AF flags are set. If no decimal carry occurred, the CF and AF flags are cleared, and the AH register is unchanged. In either case, the AL register is left with its top four bits set to 0.

This instruction executes as described in compatibility mode and legacy mode. It is not valid in 64-bit mode.

Operation#

IF 64-bit mode
    THEN
          #UD;
    ELSE

        IF ((AL AND 0FH) > 9) or (AF = 1)

                THEN
                      AX := AX  6;
                      AH := AH  1;
                      AF := 1;
                      CF := 1;
                      AL := AL AND 0FH;

                ELSE
                      CF := 0;
                      AF := 0;
                      AL := AL AND 0FH;

          FI;
FI;

Flags affected#

The AF and CF flags are set to 1 if there is a decimal borrow; otherwise, they are cleared to 0. The OF, SF, ZF, and PF flags are undefined.

Exceptions

Sources

• This instruction in the Intel manual