ROL

Basic Info
Addressing Mode	Opcode	Length	Speed
Accumulator	2A	1 byte	2 cycles
Absolute	2E	3 bytes	6 cycles*
Direct Page	26	2 bytes	5 cycles*
Absolute Indexed by X	3E	3 bytes	7 cycles*
Direct Page Indexed by X	36	2 bytes	6 cycles*

Flags Affected
N	V	M	X	D	I	Z	C
	.	.	.	.	.

ROL (Rotate Left) is a 65x instruction that rotates a value and the carry flag left one bit. The most significant bit is shifted into the carry flag. The carry flag is shifted into the least significant bit.

When the accumulator is 8 bits wide, 9 bits are rotated. When the accumulator is 16 bits wide, 17 bits are rotated.

Syntax

ROL A
ROL addr
ROL dp
ROL addr, X
ROL dp, X

Cycle Penalties

• Except in accumulator addressing, ROL takes two extra cycles when the accumulator is 16 bits wide.
• In direct page addressing modes, ROL takes another extra cycle if the low byte of the direct page register is nonzero.

See Also

• ROR
• ROL (SPC700)
• ROL (Super FX)

External Links

• Eyes & Lichty page 490, on ROL: https://archive.org/details/0893037893ProgrammingThe65816/page/n516
• lbid page 190 before & after diagram of ROL: https://archive.org/details/0893037893ProgrammingThe65816/page/n216
• Labiak page 174 on ROL: https://archive.org/details/Programming_the_65816/page/n184
• MCS6500 Manual page 149 on ROL: https://archive.org/details/mos_microcomputers_programming_manual/page/n170
• Carr page 269 on ROL: https://archive.org/details/6502UsersManual/page/n282
• Leventhal page 3-85 on ROL: https://archive.org/details/6502-assembly-language-programming/page/n134
• snes9x implementation of ROL: https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/blob/master/cpuops.cpp#L1011
• undisbeliever on ROL: https://undisbeliever.net/snesdev/65816-opcodes.html#rol-rotate-left