Arm V8 - ADRP Instructions

Add/subtract the byte difference from the base address of the page where the current instruction is located and write it to the destination register

• Byte difference: the number of bytes between the base address of the page and the target address, which is an integer multiple of PAGE_SIZE.
• The byte difference at this point is the number of immediate operations performed by the instruction

This instruction is usually used in conjunction with the add instruction to write a complete address to the destination register.

Finally long jumps are realized by br, blr