Chapter 6
Constants and Literal Pools
6.1 Introduction
One of the best things about learning assembly language is that you deal directly with hardware, and as a result, learn about computer architecture in a very direct way. It’s not absolutely necessary to know how data is transferred along busses, or how instructions make it from an instruction queue into the execution stage of a pipeline, but it is interesting to note why certain instructions are necessary in an instruction set and how certain instructions can be used in more than one way. Instructions for moving data, such as MOV, MVN, MOVW, MOVT, and LDR, will be introduced in this chapter, specifically for loading constants into a register, and while floating-point constants will be covered ...
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