which therefore cannot be ignored. The Overflow_Flag and the Sign_Flag are ignored.

Another example may be an 8-bit register with the bit pattern 01010101 and the carry flag set; if we execute a rotate left through carry instruction, the result would be 10101011 with the carry flag cleared because the most significant bit (bit 7) was rotated into the carry while the carry was rotated into the least significant bit (bit 0).

Most microprocessors,

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