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THUMB INSTRUCTION SET S3C2440A RISC MICROPROCESSOR
4-38
FORMAT 19: LONG BRANCH WITH LINK
[10:0] Long Branch and Link Offset High/Low
[11] Low/High Offset Bit
0 = Offset high
1 = Offset low
15 0
1
14
11
13 12
11
Offset
1
10
H
Figure 4-20. Format 19
OPERATION
This format specifies a long branch with link.
The assembler splits the 23-bit two's complement half-word offset specified by the label into two 11-bit halves,
ignoring bit 0 (which must be 0), and creates two THUMB instructions.
Instruction 1 (H = 0)
In the first instruction the Offset field contains the upper 11 bits of the target address. This is shifted left by 12 bits
and added to the current PC address. The resulting address is placed in LR.
Instruction 2 (H =1)
In the second instruction the Offset field contains an 11-bit representation lower half of the target address. This is
shifted left by 1 bit and added to LR. LR, which now contains the full 23-bit address, is placed in PC, the address of
the instruction following the BL is placed in LR and bit 0 of LR is set.
The branch offset must take account of the prefetch operation, which causes the PC to be 1 word (4 bytes) ahead
of the current instruction