LDAPURSB

Load-acquire RCpc register signed byte (unscaled)

This instruction calculates an address from a base register and an immediate offset, loads a signed byte from memory, sign-extends it, and writes it to a register.

If the destination register is not one of WZR or XZR, LDAPURSB loads from memory with AcquirePC semantics.

For more information about memory ordering semantics, see Load-Acquire, Load-AcquirePC, and Store-Release.

For information about addressing modes, see Load/Store addressing modes.

Unscaled offset
(FEAT_LRCPC2)

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
000110011x0imm900RnRt
sizeopc

Encoding for the 32-bit variant

Applies when (opc == 11)

LDAPURSB <Wt>, [<Xn|SP>{, #<simm>}]

Encoding for the 64-bit variant

Applies when (opc == 10)

LDAPURSB <Xt>, [<Xn|SP>{, #<simm>}]

Decode for all variants of this encoding

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_LRCPC2) then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); end; let offset : bits(64) = SignExtend{}(imm9);

Assembler Symbols

<Wt>

Is the 32-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 optional signed immediate byte offset, in the range -256 to 255, defaulting to 0 and encoded in the "imm9" field.

<Xt>

Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt" field.

Operation

var address : bits(64); let accdesc : AccessDescriptor = CreateAccDescLDAcqPC(tagchecked, acquirepc, t); if n == 31 then CheckSPAlignment(); address = SP{64}(); else address = X{64}(n); end; address = AddressAdd(address, offset, accdesc); let data : bits(datasize) = Mem{datasize}(address, accdesc); X{regsize}(t) = SignExtend{regsize}(data);

Operational information

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


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