What's the primary difference between branch instruction and branch with link instruction? ARM?
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Branch with link BL
copies the address of the next instruction (after the BL
) into the link register. The branch instruction doesn't. BL
would be used for a subroutine call, so when you want to return to where you were you can branch back to the link register.
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From what I read, the branch with link is used to perform subroutine call and the registered link is copied back to PC.