RE: question about branching/returning

[Dave Storrs]

Ok, that was pretty much what I thought.  But then what is the 'end'
opcode for?  It does a 'RETURN 0', which would increment the PC by 0
opcodes...which either counts as an infinite loop or a no-op, and we've
already got a no-op op.

Dave



On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs wrote:

> RETURN causes the program counter to be incremented by that many opcodes.
> So RETURN 4 would move forward 4 opcodes and RETURN -2 would move backward 2
> opcodes.  Basically, it returns a relative offset from the current position.