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<h5 class="subsubsection">9.4.2.1 Instruction Set Syntax</h5>
<p>Two slightly different syntaxes are support for ARM and THUMB
instructions. The default, <code>divided</code>, uses the old style where
ARM and THUMB instructions had their own, separate syntaxes. The new,
<code>unified</code> syntax, which can be selected via the <code>.syntax</code>
directive, and has the following main features:
<ul>
<li>Immediate operands do not require a <code>#</code> prefix.
<li>The <code>IT</code> instruction may appear, and if it does it is validated
against subsequent conditional affixes. In ARM mode it does not
generate machine code, in THUMB mode it does.
<li>For ARM instructions the conditional affixes always appear at the end
of the instruction. For THUMB instructions conditional affixes can be
used, but only inside the scope of an <code>IT</code> instruction.
<li>All of the instructions new to the V6T2 architecture (and later) are
available. (Only a few such instructions can be written in the
<code>divided</code> syntax).
<li>The <code>.N</code> and <code>.W</code> suffixes are recognized and honored.
<li>All instructions set the flags if and only if they have an <code>s</code>
affix.
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