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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot RO... by thwarted on Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:50PM (#30971922)
And "Thumb" mode. A solid set of HHGTTG references in this.
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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot RO... by sixstringtheory on Saturday April 09, 2022 @06:14PM (#30972642)
Just in case anyone doesn’t know, Thumb* is a subset of the ARM microarchitecture designed to use 16 bit instructions.

A very pleasing coincidence!

* https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0210/c/Introducti...

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