[PATCH] fix Thumb-2 decompressor broken by "Auto calculate ZRELADDR"
Rabin Vincent
rabin at rab.in
Fri Jul 30 19:44:09 EDT 2010
2010/7/31 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 01:05:23AM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
>> Fix it, and also change the ARM code to use the separate SP-load since
>> ARM instructions that include the SP in the LDM register list are
>> deprecated.
> I only found:
>
> LDM{<cond>}<addressing_mode> <Rn>{!}, <registers>
> ...
> If the base register <Rn> is specified in <registers>, and base
> register write-back is specified,
> the final value of <Rn> is UNPREDICTABLE.
>
> Are you really sure about this? Where do you know it from?
This is in section "A8.6.53 LDM / LDMIA / LDMFD" of the
ARM ARM (v7 edition):
LDM<c><q> <Rn>{!}, <registers>
<registers> The SP can be in the list in ARM code, but not
in Thumb code. However, ARM instructions that include the
SP in the list are deprecated.
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