Ron:
To add to Mark's reply, that's because the return code (in register 15),
was traditionally used to index a table of branch instructions (each of
which were 4 bytes long), such as:
B RETTABLE(R15)
...
RETTABLE B OK
B FAIR
B WORSE
B BAD
B FATAL
Mike Myers
On 05/08/2013 01:45 PM, Ron Thomas wrote:
Hi ,
Can some one let me know why the return code generated is a mutilple of 4? e.g
4,8,12,16
Thanks,
Ron T
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