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	<title>Saved Program Status Register</title>
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<h3>Saved Program Status Register</h3>
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<p> In ARM architecture, the saved
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			program status register (SPSR) is a banked register in all of the
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			exception modes (thus not in user mode or system mode). When
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			switching the processor mode from any other mode to any of the
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			exception modes, the value within the CPSR is stored to the SPSR
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			so that it can be recovered after the exception (such as an
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			interrupt) has been processed. When having performance measurement
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			instrumentation within an interrupt, it can be useful to
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			investigate the value within the SPSR in order to find out the
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mode of the processor before the interrupt.</p>
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