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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:56:18 -0700
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ARM question
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Richard Miller wrote:

> Exactly.  MOVW.P x,d(Ry) means "store x at the address pointed to
> by Ry, then increment Ry by d".  It's the exact equivalent of
> "*Ry++ = x" in C, if d is sizeof(*Ry).
>

gotcha. Thanks for the info. I knew the code was probably right, I just
couldn't make any sense of it.

ron