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		Aegean on Jan 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nvidia announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the de... legacy RISC mode? last time I checked it was called the ARM mode, which is the absolute standard. Thumb has benefits, but there are also limitations which is why I wouldn't call it a replacement.

crnflke on Jan 6, 2011 [–]

Not anymore - Thumb2 is the new standard and supports everything that ARM does (at least, the last I read it did).

One of the big differences is that you now need a marker instruction for predicated sequences, but obviously the encoding is quite different.

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