Does anyone know if there is a list of ARM instruction set pseudo instructions?
Or better yet, an instruction list like PPC's, where there is a list of 'true instructions' with mnemonics and
another list of "simplified mnemonics" (=pseudo instructions) in terms of the "true instructions" (mnemonics).
There are 499 ARM instructions listed in ARMv7-A/R ARM and going through them one by one is quite a job.
The "true" PPC instructions are explained much like ARM instructions in ARMv7-A/R ARM, but in the
"simplified mnemonics" chapter the pseudo instructions are described like:
How many pseudo instructions (roughly) are there for Cortex-A7?
ARMv7-A/R ARM doesn't seem to make a difference.
The basic LDR/STR instructions (bits 27 - 25 = 0 1 0 or 0 1 1) are pseudo instructions and there is really
two basic "single data load/store" instructions: the immediate form and the register form.
The special LDR/STR instructions (bits 27 - 25 = 0 0 0) (LDRH, STRD, ...) are different instructions:
the instruction bits have different meanings and/or are in different places.
Also some PC-related instructions are "true", because unlike with other registers, using PC also loads
the CPSR, so it's functionally different even if the encoding bits are exactly the same.