CLS

Count leading sign bits

This instruction determines the number of leading bits of the source register that have the same value as the most significant bit of the register, and writes the result to the destination register. The result does not include the most significant bit of the source register.

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sf101101011000000000101RnRd
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Encoding for the 32-bit variant

Applies when (sf == 0)

CLS <Wd>, <Wn>

Encoding for the 64-bit variant

Applies when (sf == 1)

CLS <Xd>, <Xn>

Decode for all variants of this encoding

let d : integer{} = UInt(Rd); let n : integer{} = UInt(Rn); let datasize : integer{} = 32 << UInt(sf);

Assembler Symbols

<Wd>

Is the 32-bit name of the general-purpose destination register, encoded in the "Rd" field.

<Wn>

Is the 32-bit name of the general-purpose source register, encoded in the "Rn" field.

<Xd>

Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose destination register, encoded in the "Rd" field.

<Xn>

Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose source register, encoded in the "Rn" field.

Operational information

This instruction is a data-independent-time instruction as described in About PSTATE.DIT.


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