BX

Branch and Exchange causes a branch to an address and instruction set specified by a register.

It has encodings from the following instruction sets: A32 ( A1 ) and T32 ( T1 ) .

A1

31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
!= 1111 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0 0 0 1 Rm
cond

A1

BX{<c>}{<q>} <Rm>

m = UInt(Rm);

T1

15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Rm (0) (0) (0)

T1

BX{<c>}{<q>} <Rm>

m = UInt(Rm); if InITBlock() && !LastInITBlock() then UNPREDICTABLE;

For more information about the constrained unpredictable behavior, see Architectural Constraints on UNPREDICTABLE behaviors.

Assembler Symbols

<c>

See Standard assembler syntax fields.

<q>

See Standard assembler syntax fields.

<Rm>

For encoding A1: is the general-purpose register holding the address to be branched to, encoded in the "Rm" field. The PC can be used.

For encoding T1: is the general-purpose register holding the address to be branched to, encoded in the "Rm" field. The PC can be used.


Note

If <Rm> is the PC at a non word-aligned address, it results in unpredictable behavior because the address passed to the BXWritePC() pseudocode function has bits<1:0> = '10'.


Operation

if ConditionPassed() then EncodingSpecificOperations(); BXWritePC(R[m], BranchType_INDIR);


Internal version only: isa v01_31, pseudocode v2023-06_rel, sve v2023-06_rel ; Build timestamp: 2023-07-04T18:06

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