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ADRP

The ARM64 assembly language feels way more natural and simple than ARM or Thumb. But sometimes it is not that intuitive.

This instruction looks like this in the wild:

adrp x0, label

bl start start: movz x1, msg-start add x1, x1, x30 movz x0, 1 movz x2, msg_len

movz x8, 64 ;; SYS_write
svc 0

movz x0, 0
movz x8, 93 ;; SYS_exit
svc 0
ret

msg: .asciz "Hello World\n" .equ msg_len, $$-msg