pical function call. In particular, there is no
internal stack in p-code for saving the return address. Use of this
instruction instead of <span class="bold"><strong>BRANCH</strong></span> is
intended to provide a hint to algorithms that try to follow code flow.
It indicates that the original machine instruction, of which this
p-code instruction is only a part, is intended to be a function
call. The p-code instruction does not implement the full semantics of
the call itself; it only implements the final bra