// control.asm:	WORD p_branch,'BRANCH',fasm

anchor:p_branch[]

=== Word: BRANCH

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Data stack: ( -- )
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"BRANCH" is a function word that implements execution transfer by
means of adding the subsequent branch offset to the point of
execution.

Note that the branch offset is a byte count and each FORTH word of a
definition take up a cell of 8 bytes. The offset is relative to the
cell address immediately subsequent to the offset cell. In other
words, offset 0 is not branching anywhere and an offset of -16 would
make a tight loop back to the branch instruction itself. The latter
would pull data stack values until and including the first zero value.

See also <<p_0branch,0BRANCH>>, <<p_1branch,1BRANCH>>, <<p_if,IF>>,
<<p_else,ELSE>>, <<p_ifbreak,IFBREAK>> and <<p_ifagain,IFAGAIN>>.