Conditional call instruction

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Wed Feb 13 14:58:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> Geoff Keating writes:

Geoff> It is unusable because the range of the call is only 32k.

	That limitation only affects the branch instructions with a target
address.  What is more useful on PowerPC are the branch condition to count
register (bcctr) and branch conditional to link register (bclr)
instructions which allow conditional call (at the expense of placing the
target address in a register) and conditional return.

David



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