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Right Shift not setting Carry flag?

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gandalfjg

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I am using GCC inline assembler for the Palm Pilot (68000 chip)

As I understand it, when I right shift (divide by two), if the number was odd then the carry bit is set - so why doesnt the code below work?

lsr.w #1,%d1
bcc EvenNumber
.....
EvenNumber:
 
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