sre (Shift Right Extended) Instruction

Assembler Language Reference

sre (Shift Right Extended) Instruction

Purpose

Shifts the contents of a general-purpose register to the right by a specified number of bits and places a copy of the rotated data in the MQ Register and the result in a general-purpose register.

Note: The sre instruction is supported only in the POWER architecture.

Syntax

POWER
sre	RA,RS,RB
sre.	RA,RS,RB

Description

The sre instruction rotates the contents of the source general-purpose register (GPR) RS to the left by 32 minus N bits, where N is the shift amount specified in bits 27-31 of GPR RB, and stores the rotated word in the MQ Register and the logical AND of the rotated word and a generated mask in GPR RA. The mask consists of N zeros followed by 32 minus N ones.

The sre instruction has two syntax forms. Each syntax form has a different effect on Condition Register Field 0.

Syntax Form	Overflow Exception (OE)	Fixed-Point Exception Register	Record Bit (Rc)	Condition Register Field 0
sre	None	None	0	None
sre.	None	None	1	LT,GT,EQ,SO

The two syntax forms of the sre instruction never affect the Fixed-Point Exception Register. If the syntax form sets the Record (Rc) bit to 1, the instruction affects the Less Than (LT) zero, Greater Than (GT) zero, Equal To (EQ) zero, and Summary Overflow (SO) bits in Condition Register Field 0.

Parameters

RA	Specifies target general-purpose register where result of operation is stored.
RS	Specifies source general-purpose register for operation.
RB	Specifies source general-purpose register for operation.

Examples

The following code rotates the contents of GPR 4 to the left by 20 bits, places a copy of the rotated data in the MQ Register, and places the result of ANDing the rotated data with a mask into GPR 6:
```
# Assume GPR 4 contains 0x9000 3000.
# Assume GPR 5 contains 0x0000 000C.
sre 6,4,5
# GPR 6 now contains 0x0009 0003.
# The MQ Register now contains 0x0009 0003.
```
The following code rotates the contents of GPR 4 to the left by 17 bits, places a copy of the rotated data in the MQ Register, places the result of ANDing the rotated data with a mask into GPR 6, and sets Condition Register Field 0 to reflect the result of the operation:
```
# Assume GPR 4 contains 0xB004 3000.
# Assume GPR 5 contains 0x0000 000F.
sre. 6,4,5
# GPR 6 now contains 0x0001 6008.
# The MQ Register now contains 0x6001 6008.
# Condition Register Field 0 now contains 0x4.
```

Related Information

Fixed-Point Processor .

Fixed-Point Rotate and Shift Instructions .