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What is different of the function call and return manner between ARM Linux kernel and ARM applications？

Heron Zhang over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 29th August 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

Hi,

When I disassamble the ARM Linux kernel for ARMv7(tegra 2),I found that a lot of function return using ldm command,just like ldm sp, {fp, sp, pc},but in the applications ( SPECCPU2006 for arm),the function return mostly using bx or b.Why that happened? Is the kernel Makefile used some gcc arguments that can lead the compiler to optimize the kernel?