[RFC v2] Towards an assembler parser for PowerPC

Gabor Greif gabor at me.com
Wed Mar 20 17:09:23 PDT 2013


Bill asked:

> Sorry to poke my nose in, but I wonder whether this is correct. There's
> no documentation in the ISA to indicate this is expected behavior. I
> suppose it's possible that there is a specific hardware implementation
> for G5 that I'm not aware of, but from an ISA standpoint "bl" and "bcl
> 20" are equivalent.

I see Kevin already answered. This is the document which first actually
documented the link stack (if I am not mistaken):

http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN2203.pdf#page=23

Cheers,

    Gabor
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