Question

The third byte of the long jump instruction is

(a) opcode

(b) 5 LSBs of opcode

(c) higher byte of jump location or subroutine

(d) lower byte of jump location or subroutine

I had been asked this question by my college professor while I was bunking the class.

Query is from 8051 Instruction Set -2 in portion Microcontroller 8051 of Microprocessor

Answer 1

Right choice is (c) higher byte of jump location or subroutine

Easy explanation: The third byte of the long jump instruction is a higher byte of jump location or subroutine.