x86 Assembly: INC and DEC instruction and overflow flag

Question

In x86 assembly, the overflow flag is set when an add or sub operation on a signed integer overflows, and the carry flag is set when an operation o

Answer 1

Except for the carry flag inc sets the flags the same way as add operand 1 would.

The fact that inc does not affect the carry flag is very important.

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