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This is just an overview. Parts of this article have been copied from the [http://www.robsymyquest.netnl/z80undocumented/z80undoc.pdf "The Undocumented Z80 Documented" ] originally by Sean Young] and currently maintained by Jan Wilmans, which is one of the most comprehensive descriptions around.

The following Of the 247 opcodes that use the prefix &CB, the block &CB &30 to &CB &37 is undocumented officially. These commands set shift the operand register left and set its lowest bit to 1 instead . This is in contrast to 0: SRL (Shift Right Logical), which shifts right and clears the highest bit. Some believe these opcodes were supposed to be Shift Left Logical but that the setting of the lowest bit represents a bug in the Z80, claiming this is why the opcodes are undocumented. Others call the opcodes SLIA, for Shift Left Inverted Arithmetic. Regardless of the story behind this operation, its effective result is ''register'' = (''register'' * 2) + 1, something that does have its uses and has been employed in various programming contexts for that reason. 

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The &DD/or &FD prefixes replace are documented as causing operations using the 16-bit register HL to instead work with either of the 16-bit indexing registers L, H IX or IY; if the operations access a memory location (''i.e.'' normally LD A,(HL with IXL), ''etc.''), the opcodes must additionally include an extra byte that specifies a signed displacement (-128 to +127) from IX/IYLIY. However, Zilog have not documented the fact that these prefixes also affect opcodes that usually refer to the 8-bit components of HL, ''i.e.'' H and L. Thus, one gains access to the additional registers IXH/, IXL, IYH , and IYL, for almost all commands that normally use H or L. It is even possible to do things like LD IXH,IXL (although you cannot combine IX/and IYin the same instruction, for obvious reasons). These registers can be useful in routines that must process and/or store a lot of numbers. Thankfully, they are not as slow as their 16-bit counterparts: whereas access to (IX+d) is usually slower by 3 NOPs than the equivalent operation upon (HL), using the 8-bit components is (like PUSH IX, ''etc.'') only 1 NOP slower, and this is only due to the need to parse the prefixing byte.  

Note: These registers are called LX, LY, HX , and HY in the by [[WinAPE ]]'s debugger, although its assembleruses the names given above.

*[http://www.robsymyquest.netnl/z80undocz80undocumented/z80-documented-v0.91.pdf "The Undocumented Z80 Documented" by Sean Young Version 0.91, 18th September, 2005] at Robsy[http://www.myquest.nl/z80undocumented/ Jan Wilmans's MSX WorkshopWebsite] *[{{BrokenLink|http://www.rawwgrimware.org/indexlib/exe/fetch.php?name=News&file=article&sid/documentations/devices/z80/z80.memptr.eng.txt|2017|01|22|21|32|33|text=2226 Short information about the internal "MEMPTR" 16bit register of the Z80 and its influence on the F-Register]}}