What Does Aaa Do in 8086

The aaa instruction is mainly useful for adding strings of digits where there is exactly one decimal digit per byte in a string of numbers. This text will not deal with BCD or ASCII numeric strings, so you can safely ignore this instruction for now.

How many operations are there for AAA instruction?

The ASCII arithmetic instruction function with ASCII-coded numbers. These numbers range in value from 30H to 39H for the numbers 0 to 9. There are four instructions used with ASCII arithmetic operations: AAA (ASCII Adjust after Addition)

What is the AL register?

al and ah are the 8-bit, “char” size registers. … al is the low 8 bits, ah is the high 8 bits. They’re pretty similar to the old 8-bit registers of the 8008 back in 1972.

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