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* Question about arm multiple load and store instructions
@ 2008-10-21  3:43 loody
  2008-10-21 12:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: loody @ 2008-10-21  3:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: binutils

Dear all:
While studying some arm assembly source codes, I find there is a
multiple load store instruction format like below:
LDM|STM{<cond>}<addressing_mode> <Rn>{!}, <registers>{^}

My question is:
What is the last ^ used for? I cannot find any explanation in arm's
instruction reference menu.

appreciate your help,
miloody

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* Re: Question about arm multiple load and store instructions
  2008-10-21  3:43 Question about arm multiple load and store instructions loody
@ 2008-10-21 12:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Jacobowitz @ 2008-10-21 12:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: loody; +Cc: binutils

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:42:39AM +0800, loody wrote:
> Dear all:
> While studying some arm assembly source codes, I find there is a
> multiple load store instruction format like below:
> LDM|STM{<cond>}<addressing_mode> <Rn>{!}, <registers>{^}
> 
> My question is:
> What is the last ^ used for? I cannot find any explanation in arm's
> instruction reference menu.

It's LDM(2) and LDM(3) in my copy of the ARM instruction reference.
Without PC, it means "load user registers instead of current
registers"; with PC it means "also copy SPSR to CPSR".  They're both
for privileged use only.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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