Assembly Language Programming: ARM Cortex–M3

<p>Preface ix</p>
<p>Chapter 1. Overview of Cortex–M3 Architecture 1</p>
<p>1.1. Assembly language versus the assembler 1</p>
<p>1.2. The world of ARM 2</p>
<p>Chapter 2. The Core of Cortex–M3 15</p>
<p>2.1. Modes, privileges and states 15</p>
<p>2.2. Registers 17</p>
<p>Chapter 3. The Proper Use of Assembly Directives 25</p>
<p>3.1. The concept of the directive 25</p>
<p>3.2. Structure of a program 27</p>
<p>3.3. A section of code 29</p>
<p>3.4. The data section 36</p>
<p>3.5. Is that all? 39</p>
<p>Chapter 4. Operands of Instructions 47</p>
<p>4.1. The constant and renaming 48</p>
<p>4.2. Operands for common instructions 49</p>
<p>4.3. Memory access operands: addressing modes 57</p>
<p>Chapter 5. Instruction Set 63</p>
<p>5.1. Reading guide 63</p>
<p>5.2. Arithmetic instructions 66</p>
<p>5.3. Logical and bit manipulation instructions 70</p>
<p>5.4. Internal transfer instructions 75</p>
<p>5.5. Test instructions 76</p>
<p>5.6. Branch instructions 77</p>
<p>5.7. Load/store instructions 80</p>
<p>5.8. System instructions and others 85</p>
<p>Chapter 6. Algorithmic and Data Structures 87</p>
<p>6.1. Flowchart versus algorithm 87</p>
<p>6.2. Alternative structures 89</p>
<p>6.3. Iterative structures 98</p>
<p>6.4. Compound conditions 106</p>
<p>6.5. Data structure 111</p>
<p>Chapter 7. Internal Modularity 119</p>
<p>7.1. Detailing the concept of procedure 119</p>
<p>7.2. Procedure arguments 123</p>
<p>7.3. Local data 136</p>
<p>Chapter 8. Managing Exceptions 147</p>
<p>8.1. What happens during Reset? 148</p>
<p>8.2. Possible exceptions 151</p>
<p>8.3. Priority management 161</p>
<p>8.4. Entry and return in exception processing 167</p>
<p>Chapter 9. From Listing to Executable: External Modularity 173</p>
<p>9.1. External modularity 175</p>
<p>9.2. The role of the assembler 182</p>
<p>9.3. The role of the linker 188</p>
<p>9.4. The loader and the debugging unit 196</p>
<p>Appendices 199</p>
<p>Appendix A. Instruction Set Alphabetical List 201</p>
<p>Appendix B. The SysTick Timer 209</p>
<p>Appendix C. Example of a Bootstrap File 217</p>
<p>Appendix D. The GNU Assembler 227</p>
<p>Bibliography 239</p>
<p>Index 241</p>