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PC Value pointer location

techguyz over 3 years ago

Hi Experts,

The PC value is always pointing 8 bytes more than current execution for Cortex R4/R5 processors. Any specific reason for the same.

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42Bastian Schick over 3 years ago +1 suggested

IIRC it is to be compatible with the first ARM CPUs. Back in time it was due to the pipelining.

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0 Sullivan56 over 3 years ago

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Thanks for the information, I will try to figure it out for more. Looking for the same concern.
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