360 Assembly/360 Instructions/BALR

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BAL/BALR is a Branch and Link Instruction. It stores the address of the next sequential instruction in operand 1 then jumps to the address specified in operand 2.

Example

BALR R5,R3

It will store NSI(Next Sequential Address) in R5 and jump to the address stored in R3.

BALR R14,0 <---Special Use

It will just store NSI in R14 and not jump to anywhere because operand 2 is R0

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