SBC


Basic Info
Addressing Mode	Opcode	Length	Speed
Immediate	E9	2/3 bytes	2 cycles*
Absolute	ED	3 bytes	4 cycles*
Absolute Long	EF	4 bytes	5 cycles*
Direct Page	E5	2 bytes	3 cycles*
Direct Page Indirect	F2	2 bytes	5 cycles*
Direct Page Indirect Long	E7	2 bytes	6 cycles*
Absolute Indexed by X	FD	3 bytes	4 cycles*
Absolute Long Indexed by X	FF	4 bytes	5 cycles*
Absolute Indexed by Y	F9	3 bytes	4 cycles*
Direct Page Indexed by X	F5	2 bytes	4 cycles*
Direct Page Indexed Indirect by X	E1	2 bytes	6 cycles*
Direct Page Indirect Indexed by Y	F1	2 bytes	5 cycles*
Direct Page Indirect Long Indexed by Y	F7	2 bytes	6 cycles*
Stack Relative	E3	2 bytes	4 cycles*
Stack Relative Indirect Indexed by Y	F3	2 bytes	7 cycles*


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

SBC (Subtract with Carry/Borrow) is 65x instruction that performs a subtraction. The accumulator serves as both the minuend and where the difference is stored. The operand serves as the subtrahend.

If the carry flag (aka borrow flag) is clear, one more is subtracted. As there is no subtract-without-carry instruction, SEC should be run beforehand or the carry flag should otherwise be ensured to be set, otherwise the difference may be one greater than expected.

If the difference is negative, the carry flag will be cleared, otherwise it will be set.

If the decimal flag is set, then binary coded decimal subtraction is performed, otherwise binary subtraction.

Syntax

SBC #const
SBC addr
SBC long
SBC dp
SBC (dp)
SBC [dp]
SBC addr, X
SBC long, X
SBC addr, Y
SBC dp, X
SBC (dp, X)
SBC (dp), Y
SBC [dp], Y
SBC sr, S
SBC (sr, S), Y

Cycle Penalties

SBC takes an extra cycle for each of the following:

if the accumulator is 16 bits wide, in all addressing modes
when utilizing the direct register, if the low byte of the direct register is nonzero
in certain addressing modes if adding an index crosses a page boundary

If you only need to subtract one, consider DEC instead.

External Links

Eyes & Lichty, page 497 on SBC
Labiak, page 179 on SBC
2.2.2 on MCS6500 Manual, page 14 on SBC
Carr, page 271 on SBC
Leventhal, page 3-91 on SBC
snes9x implementation of SBC: https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/blob/master/cpuops.cpp#L1133
undisbeliever on SBC: https://undisbeliever.net/snesdev/65816-opcodes.html#sbc-subtract-with-borrow-from-accumulator
Pickens, John. http://www.6502.org/tutorials/6502opcodes.html#SBC
Clark, Bruce. http://www.6502.org/tutorials/65c816opcodes.html#6.1.1.1

SBC

Contents

Syntax

Cycle Penalties

See Also

External Links