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Re: ARM long branch stub: pic

On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 06:20:18PM +0100, Christophe LYON wrote:
> > Sorry I was confused by the buffers I was looking at and didn't describe
> > the right thing. It's more that I think that in some combinations, the
> > stub codes use instructions not available on older architectures.
>
> Oh, that makes more sense: the "add pc, pc, ip" won't mode switch on
> v4T.

It won't switch modes on v5t/v6 either. Only bx and ldr/ldm perform a mode 
switch.

Paul
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