Understanding Arm Assembler Branch Offset Calculation
I do not understand the offset calcualted for the branch 开发者_如何学Pythoninstructions (b and bl at addresses 0x00011004 and 0x00011010) related to the disassembled code listed below. I'm wondering that in the hex code listing the offsets seem to be 0x000001 and 0x000002. The Opcodes for the conditions b (EA) and bl (EB) were what I expected.
Thanks for every hint in advance
MyAssemblerFunc:
00011000 stmdb sp!, {r0 - r3, lr}
00011004 b 00011010
00011008 mov r0, r0
0001100C mov r0, r0
00011010 bl |PrintHelloWorld ( 11020h )|
00011014 ldmia sp!, {r0 - r3, lr}
Related Hex Code
0x00011000 0f 40 2d e9 .@-é
0x00011004 01 00 00 ea ...ê
0x00011008 00 00 a0 e1 .. á
0x0001100C 00 00 a0 e1 .. á
0x00011010 02 00 00 eb ...ë
0x00011014 0f 40 bd e8 .@.è
0x00011018 00 00 a0 e1 .. á
0x0001101C 00 00 a0 e1 .. á
Since in ARM mode instructions can be placed only on word boundaries, there is no need to encode the two low bits of the address (they will be 0). Thus, the immediate value in the B instruction is the delta shifted by 2 bits. For the first branch, delta is (target - PC) >> 2. target is 00011010 and PC is 00011004+8 = 0001100C. So delta = (00011010-0001100C) >> 2 = 4 >> 2 = 1. You can do the math for the second one yourself.
The 8 byte offset is constant due to ARM prefetch.
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