Compare Branch and Jump Instructions for Computers

[EvLer]

how is "branch" instruction different from "jump"?

Thanks in advance.

 

[chroot]

A branch instruction is conditional. If some condition is met, program flow jumps to some other location. If the condition is not met, the next instruction is executed instead.

A jump, on the other hand, is not conditional.

- Warren

 

[matejhowell]

It also sometimes has to do with language you are programming. I believed in 68HC11 code, a jump is for an absolute position, and a branch is relative. Check out the BRA and the JMP commands.

From what I have seen, it is more loose than an absolute definition.

-- MLH

 

[EvLer]

ya, we use 68HC12. Thanks for the explanations.