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Absolute Value

Written by Laura Fairhead
The Challenge ------------- Find the absolute value of a register in only 4 bytes. The Solution ------------ NEG AX JL SHORT $-4 This was not completely my original idea (is there such thing??); I found a similar sequence which used the more obvious branch 'JS'. The JS had the problem that it goes into an infinite loop if AX=08000h.