Hi, The LDR rX, =cst pseudo-instruction suffers from two issues for loading integer constants in Thumb mode: - movs is used if the constant and register can be encoded using that instruction which leads to unexpected behavior due to its flag-setting behavior - mov.w, movw and mvn are used for r13 (sp) and r15 (pc) but these encoding are marked as UNPREDICTABLE This patch fixes those issues and update testing accordingly. ChangeLog entry is as follows: *** gas/ChangeLog *** 2017-04-20 Thomas Preud'homme * config/tc-arm.c (move_or_literal_pool): Remove code generating MOVS. Forbid MOV.W and MOVW if destination is SP or PC. * testsuite/gas/arm/thumb2_ldr_immediate_highregs_armv6t2.s: Explain expectation of LDR not generating a MOVS for low registers and small constants. Add tests of MOVW generation. * testsuite/gas/arm/thumb2_ldr_immediate_highregs_armv6t2.d: Update expected disassembly. Testsuite shows no regression with this patch. Is this ok for master? Best regards, Thomas