On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Shi, Yang yang.shi@linaro.org wrote:
On 11/11/2015 4:39 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
Wait a second, we're both talking rubbish here :) The STR (immediate) form is referring to the addressing mode, whereas this patch wants to store an immediate value to memory, which does need moving to a register first.
Yes, the immediate means immediate offset for addressing index. Doesn't mean to store immediate to memory.
I don't think any load-store architecture has store immediate instruction.
Indeed. Sorry for the noise.
Somehow Will caught a whiff of whatever I was smoking then :)