ARM/THUMB long calls stubs

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Mon Aug 12 09:32:00 GMT 2002


Hi Richard,

> The whole point of the _call_via instructions is to get the current PC in 
> r14 without losing the Thumb bit.  This can only be do with a BL 
> instruction, so we must call something.  If it weren't for the fact that 
> mov lr, pc lost the thumb bit we could just write
> 
> 	mov	lr, pc
> 	bx	Rn

Doh! I forgot about that.  So my recent suggested patch is not going
to work because the return address will be incorrect.  Darn.

Cheers
        Nick



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