FNEG

Floating-point negate (predicated)

This instruction negates each active floating-point element of the source vector, and places the results in the corresponding elements of the destination vector. This inverts the sign bit and cannot signal a floating-point exception. Inactive elements in the destination vector register remain unmodified or are set to zero, depending on whether merging or zeroing predication is selected.

It has encodings from 2 classes: Merging and Zeroing

Merging
(FEAT_SVE || FEAT_SME)

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
00000100size011101101PgZnZd
Mopc

Encoding

FNEG <Zd>.<T>, <Pg>/M, <Zn>.<T>

Decode for this encoding

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SVE) && !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SME) then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); end; if size == '00' then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); end; let esize : integer{} = 8 << UInt(size); let g : integer = UInt(Pg); let n : integer = UInt(Zn); let d : integer = UInt(Zd); let merging : boolean = TRUE;

Zeroing
(FEAT_SVE2p2 || FEAT_SME2p2)

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
00000100size001101101PgZnZd
Mopc

Encoding

FNEG <Zd>.<T>, <Pg>/Z, <Zn>.<T>

Decode for this encoding

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SVE2p2) && !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SME2p2) then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); end; if size == '00' then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); end; let esize : integer{} = 8 << UInt(size); let g : integer = UInt(Pg); let n : integer = UInt(Zn); let d : integer = UInt(Zd); let merging : boolean = FALSE;

Assembler Symbols

<Zd>

Is the name of the destination scalable vector register, encoded in the "Zd" field.

<T>

Is the size specifier, encoded in size:

size <T>
00 RESERVED
01 H
10 S
11 D
<Pg>

Is the name of the governing scalable predicate register P0-P7, encoded in the "Pg" field.

<Zn>

Is the name of the source scalable vector register, encoded in the "Zn" field.

Operation

CheckSVEEnabled(); let VL : integer{} = CurrentVL(); let PL : integer{} = VL DIV 8; let elements : integer = VL DIV esize; let mask : bits(PL) = P{}(g); let operand : bits(VL) = if AnyActiveElement{PL}(mask, esize) then Z{VL}(n) else Zeros{VL}; var result : bits(VL) = if merging then Z{VL}(d) else Zeros{VL}; for e = 0 to elements-1 do if ActivePredicateElement{PL}(mask, e, esize) then let element : bits(esize) = operand[e*:esize]; result[e*:esize] = FPNeg{esize}(element, FPCR()); end; end; Z{VL}(d) = result;

Operational information

For the "Merging" variant:

The merging variant of this instruction might be immediately preceded in program order by a MOVPRFX instruction. The MOVPRFX must conform to all of the following requirements, otherwise the behavior of the MOVPRFX and the merging variant of this instruction is CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE:


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