>>Can some one let me know why the return code generated is a mutilple of 4? 
>>e.g 4,8,12,16
Back in the day when every byte counted, programmers would use the RC in R15 as 
an index into a jump table, where each four byte entry was itself an 
unconditional branch instruction, which was a four byte instruction.  Not 
needed anymore, but old habits die hard.

Think of it as like a computed GOTO .

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