waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

The blog here at is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on .

fstmdbx.

January 24th, 2002

fstmdbx. What the hell is that? The ARM compiler generated
it, but neither the ARM emulator nor the ARM Architecture Reference
Manual (yes, the “ARM ARM”) have ever heard of it.

[Update: it’s a non-core floating-point instruction. f (floating
point) st (store) m (multiply) d (double precision)
bx (condition expression).]

newer: older: