Re: *TODO* Document the pseudo-ops (adr, ops)

[Russell King - ARM Linux Admin]

Zach Welch writes:
> I'm working to port Linux to our SA-1100 platform and having been delving
> into the arch/arm/kernel source pretty heavily. In my pursuit, I ran across
> the 'adr' opcode several times. Being unfamiliar with the opcode, I looked
> through the 'info' page only to discover the following message:
> 
> *TODO* Document the pseudo-ops (adr, ops)

"adr rd, sym" equates to either an "add rd, pc, #constant" or
"sub rd, pc, #constant" such that "rd" ends up being the address of "sym".
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