I am new to assembly and I saw the following line of code
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What does it do? I looked in my RiscV Green Card but didn't find it. Is it like j, does it store or load any data?
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Well its a jump. It is a pseudo instruction. Its effectively a `jalr x0, x1, 0 `. `x1` hold the return address. – Eraklon Jan 31 '21 at 12:52
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@Eraklon to make things clear it just jumps to the value stored in x1(ra)? – Oleg Jan 31 '21 at 13:04
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Yes, thats correct. – Eraklon Jan 31 '21 at 13:14
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would you like to post it as answer? – Oleg Jan 31 '21 at 13:18
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2[RISC V Pseudo instructions](https://stackoverflow.com/a/65008687/471129) – Erik Eidt Jan 31 '21 at 13:40
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what part of the documentation is not clear? – old_timer Jan 31 '21 at 14:25
