Assembly Language question

[milvapp]

In terms of hardware is there any possible way to implement a branch instruction (beq,bne etc)
without using flags?

For example BEQ R1 R2 label if R1=R2 branches to label.
I substract R1-R2 at the ALU but how can I check that the result is zero ?

P.S. Please dont tell me compare it with a dummy register containing the value 0
because I conclude to the same point

Thank you in advance.

 

[KerimF]

Don't you know the answer?

 

[jpanhalt]

Look up the assembler pseudo-mnemonic BZ or used BSTFC status,2>goto... Personally, I think writing it out , rather than using the pseudo-mnemonic is better. Of course, after the subtraction that yields zero.

John