Program Register Set - NEC V850/SB1 User Manual

3.2.1 Program register set

The program register set includes general-purpose registers and a program counter.
(1) General-purpose registers
Thirty-two general-purpose registers, r0 to r31, are available. Any of these registers can be used as a data
variable or address variable.
However, r0 and r30 are implicitly used by instructions, and care must be exercised when using these registers.
Also, r1, r3, r4, r5, and r31 are implicitly used by the assembler and C compiler. Therefore, before using these
registers, their contents must be saved so that they are not lost. The contents must be restored to the registers
after the registers have been used.
There are cases when r2 is used by the real-time OS. If r2 is not used by the real-time OS, r2 can be used as a
variable register.
Name
r0 Zero register
r1 Assembler-reserved register
r2 Address/data variable register (when r2 is not used by the real-time OS)
r3 Stack pointer
r4 Global pointer
r5 Text pointer
r6 to r29 Address/data variable registers
r30 Element pointer
r31 Link pointer
PC Program counter
Note Area in which program code is mapped.
(2) Program counter (PC)
This register holds the address of the instruction under execution. The lower 24 bits of this register are valid, and
bits 31 to 24 are fixed to 0. If a carry occurs from bit 23 to 24, it is ignored.
Bit 0 is fixed to 0, and branching to an odd address cannot be performed.
After reset: 00000000H
Symbol 31
PC Fixed to 0
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Table 3-1. Program Registers
Usage
Always holds 0
Working register for generating 32-bit immediate
Used to generate stack frame when function is called
Used to access global variable in data area
Register to indicate the start of the text area
Base pointer when memory is accessed
Used by compiler when calling function
Holds instruction address during program execution
24 23
Instruction address under execution
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Operation
Note
1 0
0