FLAG REGISTER OF 8086

Flags is a 16-bit register containing 9 1-bit flags:

• Overflow Flag (OF) - set if the result is too large positive number, or is too small negative number to fit into destination operand.
• Direction Flag (DF) - if set then string manipulation instructions will auto-decrement index registers. If cleared then the index registers will be auto-incremented.
• Interrupt-enable Flag (IF) - setting this bit enables maskable interrupts.
• Single-step Flag (TF) - if set then single-step interrupt will occur after the next instruction.
• Sign Flag (SF) - set if the most significant bit of the result is set.
• Zero Flag (ZF) - set if the result is zero.
• Auxiliary carry Flag (AF) - set if there was a carry from or borrow to bits 0-3 in the AL register.
• Parity Flag (PF) - set if parity (the number of "1" bits) in the low-order byte of the result is even.
• Carry Flag (CF) - set if there was a carry from or borrow to the most significant bit during last result calculation.