Load Register Signed Byte (immediate) loads a byte from memory, sign-extends it to either 32 bits or 64 bits, and writes the result to a register. The address that is used for the load is calculated from a base register and an immediate offset. For information about memory accesses, see Load/Store addressing modes.
It has encodings from 3 classes: Post-index , Pre-index and Unsigned offset
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | x | 0 | imm9 | 0 | 1 | Rn | Rt | ||||||||||||||||
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boolean wback = TRUE; boolean postindex = TRUE; bits(64) offset = SignExtend(imm9, 64);
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | x | 0 | imm9 | 1 | 1 | Rn | Rt | ||||||||||||||||
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boolean wback = TRUE; boolean postindex = FALSE; bits(64) offset = SignExtend(imm9, 64);
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | x | imm12 | Rn | Rt | |||||||||||||||||||
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boolean wback = FALSE; boolean postindex = FALSE; bits(64) offset = LSL(ZeroExtend(imm12, 64), 0);
For information about the CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behavior of this instruction, see Architectural Constraints on UNPREDICTABLE behaviors, and particularly LDRSB (immediate).
<Wt> | Is the 32-bit name of the general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt" field. |
<Xt> | Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt" field. |
<Xn|SP> | Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose base register or stack pointer, encoded in the "Rn" field. |
<simm> | Is the signed immediate byte offset, in the range -256 to 255, encoded in the "imm9" field. |
<pimm> | Is the optional positive immediate byte offset, in the range 0 to 4095, defaulting to 0 and encoded in the "imm12" field. |
integer n = UInt(Rn); integer t = UInt(Rt); MemOp memop; boolean signed; integer regsize; if opc<1> == '0' then // store or zero-extending load memop = if opc<0> == '1' then MemOp_LOAD else MemOp_STORE; regsize = 32; signed = FALSE; else // sign-extending load memop = MemOp_LOAD; regsize = if opc<0> == '1' then 32 else 64; signed = TRUE; boolean tagchecked = memop != MemOp_PREFETCH && (wback || n != 31); boolean wb_unknown = FALSE; boolean rt_unknown = FALSE; Constraint c; if memop == MemOp_LOAD && wback && n == t && n != 31 then c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_WBOVERLAPLD); assert c IN {Constraint_WBSUPPRESS, Constraint_UNKNOWN, Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP}; case c of when Constraint_WBSUPPRESS wback = FALSE; // writeback is suppressed when Constraint_UNKNOWN wb_unknown = TRUE; // writeback is UNKNOWN when Constraint_UNDEF UNDEFINED; when Constraint_NOP EndOfInstruction(); if memop == MemOp_STORE && wback && n == t && n != 31 then c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_WBOVERLAPST); assert c IN {Constraint_NONE, Constraint_UNKNOWN, Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP}; case c of when Constraint_NONE rt_unknown = FALSE; // value stored is original value when Constraint_UNKNOWN rt_unknown = TRUE; // value stored is UNKNOWN when Constraint_UNDEF UNDEFINED; when Constraint_NOP EndOfInstruction();
bits(64) address; bits(8) data; boolean privileged = PSTATE.EL != EL0; AccessDescriptor accdesc = CreateAccDescGPR(memop, FALSE, privileged, tagchecked); if n == 31 then if memop != MemOp_PREFETCH then CheckSPAlignment(); address = SP[]; else address = X[n, 64]; if !postindex then address = GenerateAddress(address, offset, accdesc); case memop of when MemOp_STORE if rt_unknown then data = bits(8) UNKNOWN; else data = X[t, 8]; Mem[address, 1, accdesc] = data; when MemOp_LOAD data = Mem[address, 1, accdesc]; if signed then X[t, regsize] = SignExtend(data, regsize); else X[t, regsize] = ZeroExtend(data, regsize); when MemOp_PREFETCH Prefetch(address, t<4:0>); if wback then if wb_unknown then address = bits(64) UNKNOWN; elsif postindex then address = GenerateAddress(address, offset, accdesc); if n == 31 then SP[] = address; else X[n, 64] = address;
If PSTATE.DIT is 1, the timing of this instruction is insensitive to the value of the data being loaded or stored.