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Chapter 2
Writing ARM and Thumb Assembly Language
This chapter provides an introduction to the general principles of writing ARM and
Thumb assembly language. It contains the following sections:
• Introduction on page 2-2
• Overview of the ARM architecture on page 2-3
• Structure of assembly language modules on page 2-12
• Using the C preprocessor on page 2-19
• Conditional execution on page 2-20
• Loading constants into registers on page 2-25
• Loading addresses into registers on page 2-30
• Load and store multiple register instructions on page 2-39
• Using macros on page 2-48
• Describing data structures with MAP and FIELD directives on page 2-51
• Using frame directives on page 2-66.