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COP

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Basic Info
Addressing Mode Opcode Length Speed
Stack (Interrupt) 02 2 bytes 8 cycles*
Flags Affected
N V M X D I Z C
. . . . 0 1 . .

COP (Co-Processor) is a 65c816 instruction designed to run a co-processor command. The byte following the opcode is called the signature byte and is required by assemblers:

  • Signature bytes of 00h to 7Fh can be programmer-defined
  • Signature bytes of 80h to FFh are reserved for future microprocessors by the Western Design Center[3]

The state of the interrupt disable flag has no effect on the behavior of COP.

COP triggers a software interrupt and control is routed to the COP handler, whose address is stored in the COP vector at $FFF4. COP could be used to communicate with a floating point coprocessor, for example.

The PBR is cleared, but in native mode its previous value is pushed to the stack.

Syntax

COP sig
Cycle Skipped

See Also

External Links

  1. Eyes & Lichty, page 447 on COP
  2. Labiak, page 135 on COP
  3. section 7.15 of 65c816 datasheet
  4. snes9x implementation of COP: https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/blob/master/cpuops.cpp#L2738
  5. https://ersanio.gitbook.io/assembly-for-the-snes/deep-dives/misc
  6. https://undisbeliever.net/snesdev/65816-opcodes.html#software-interrupts