Flags are treated as just another kind of dependency in the register renaming phase, though it's a lot hairier because they probably need to be tracked on an in

Flags are treated as just another kind of dependency in the register renaming phase, though it's a lot hairier because they probably need to be tracked on an individual (per-bit) basis. As a sibling commenter noted, a conditional call is basically just a macro for a (negated) conditional branch jump over a call instruction, but with a different prediction.