flag-setting instruction
An instruction that updates the status flags. On ARM64 only some do, marked by an s on the end, like adds and subs.
x86-64 arithmetic and logic instructions (add, sub, neg, and, or, xor and others) set flags as a side effect while mov and lea do not; ARM64 arithmetic leaves NZCV alone unless the S-suffixed form (adds, subs, ands) is used.
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