Assembly - Carry flag VS overflow flag
In unsigned arithmetic, you have added 0xFB
to 0x84
, i.e. 251 + 132, which indeed is larger than 8-bit, and so the carry flag is set.
In the second case, you are adding +127 to 1, which indeed exceeds a signed 8-bit range, and so the overflow flag is set.
Overflow occurs when the result of adding two positive numbers is negative or
the result of adding two negative numbers is positive.
For instance:
+127+1=?
+127=0111 1111
+1=0000 0001
---------
1000 0000
As we look at the sign bits of the two operands and the sign bit of the result, we find out that Overflow occurred and the answer is incorrect.