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Extract successive bytes into indices of the byte-table population count table. The last shift leaves only the original high byte, so that index needs no final mask.
popcount_table:
push {r4}
adr r2, popbyte
movs r3, #255
movs r1, r0
ands r1, r1, r3
ldrb r4, [r2, r1]
lsrs r0, r0, #8
movs r1, r0
ands r1, r1, r3
ldrb r1, [r2, r1]
adds r4, r4, r1
lsrs r0, r0, #8
movs r1, r0
ands r1, r1, r3
ldrb r1, [r2, r1]
adds r4, r4, r1
lsrs r0, r0, #8
ldrb r1, [r2, r0]
adds r0, r4, r1
pop {r4}
bx lrPlace the byte table at an aligned nearby label in the instruction-address range of
adr. That instruction forms the table's address relative to the program counter; it does not load a table entry. Each ldrb uses register-offset addressing: the base is r2, the byte offset is the index register, and the loaded byte is zero-extended. Because entries occupy one byte, the index needs no scaling. ldrb r1, [r2, r1] uses the old r1 to form the address before overwriting it with the result.Every bit belongs to exactly one extracted byte, so adding the four table counts gives the whole word's population count, independently of endianness. The calculation reads four bytes from the table and contains no loop.