About The Instruction Descriptions; Operands; Restrictions When Using Pc Or Sp; Flexible Second Operand - ST STM32F4 Series Programming Manual

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3.3

About the instruction descriptions

The following sections give more information about using the instructions:
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Operands on page 59
• Restrictions when using PC or SP on page 59
•
Flexible second operand on page 59
• Shift operations on page 61
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Address alignment on page 64
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PC-relative expressions on page 64
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Conditional execution on page 64
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Instruction width selection on page 67
3.3.1

Operands

An instruction operand can be an ARM register, a constant, or another instruction-specific
parameter. Instructions act on the operands and often store the result in a destination
register. When there is a destination register in the instruction, it is usually specified before
the operands.
Operands in some instructions are flexible in that they can either be a register or a constant
(see Flexible second
3.3.2

Restrictions when using PC or SP

Many instructions have restrictions on whether you can use the program counter (PC) or
stack pointer (SP) for the operands or destination register. See instruction descriptions for
more information.
Bit[0] of any address written to the PC with a BX, BLX, LDM, LDR, or POP instruction must
be 1 for correct execution, because this bit indicates the required instruction set, and the
Cortex-M4 processor only supports thumb instructions.
3.3.3

Flexible second operand

Many general data processing instructions have a flexible second operand. This is shown
as operand2 in the description of the syntax of each instruction.
Operand2 can be a:
• Constant
•
Register with optional shift
operand).
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