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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>>
>>> On 06/09/2023 18:37, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, 6 September 2023 at 16:35:57 UTC+1, David Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> RISC processors often have "jump and link" rather than "call".
>>>
>>> Link and jump.
>>
>> ARM calls it branch and link (BL).    Horses for Courses.
>
> I think it goes back to the IBM System/360.  That had branch and link
> (and branch and link register) instructions for function calling.

I had to think for a moment before remembering that on
the System/360 it was BAL and BALR.