X-Git-Url: https://git.rrq.au/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=adoc%2Fp_0branch.adoc;h=6488d62ab6c305c4c421abd782609db3eaeab75a;hb=4dcbbfcdec1f956b9fe016b4e742f8c57837ab2c;hp=27d338d60515d9f95453d1ffff31d2ae36de97ca;hpb=d5a8f559318ac57934871a48e964bac18557b601;p=rrq%2Frrqforth.git diff --git a/adoc/p_0branch.adoc b/adoc/p_0branch.adoc index 27d338d..6488d62 100644 --- a/adoc/p_0branch.adoc +++ b/adoc/p_0branch.adoc @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ // contorl.asm: WORD p_zero_branch,'0BRANCH',fasm -anchor:p_zero_branch[] +anchor:p_0branch[] === Word: 0BRANCH @@ -14,3 +14,13 @@ the point of execution. If the value, v, is 0 then the branch offset is added, and otherwise execution continues with the cell following the branch offset in the definition. +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 non-zero +value. + +See also <>, <>, <>, +<>, <> and <>.