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version 2012-09-27

NEG : arithmetic NEGation (2s-complement)

This is an alias of the SUB instruction (-A = 0-A). A "short" form alias is available when the source and the destination are the same register.

So far, this instruction has no way to handle properly the negation of 8000h (YASEP16) or 80000000h (YASEP32)