MOVPRFX (unpredicated)

Move prefix (unpredicated)

This instruction is a hint to hardware that the instruction may be combined with the destructive instruction that follows it in program order to create a single constructive operation. This instruction is also permitted to be implemented as a discrete vector copy, and the result of executing the pair of instructions with or without combining is identical. The choice of combined versus discrete operation may vary dynamically.

Although the operation of the instruction is defined as a simple unpredicated vector copy, it is required that the prefixed instruction at PC+4 must be an SVE destructive binary or ternary instruction encoding, or a unary operation with merging predication, but excluding other MOVPRFX instructions. The prefixed instruction must specify the same destination vector as the MOVPRFX instruction. The prefixed instruction must not use the destination register in any other operand position, even if they have different names but refer to the same architectural register state. Any other use is UNPREDICTABLE.

SVE
(FEAT_SVE || FEAT_SME)

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
0000010000100000101111ZnZd
opcopc2

Encoding

MOVPRFX <Zd>, <Zn>

Decode for this encoding

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SVE) && !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SME) then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); end; let n : integer = UInt(Zn); let d : integer = UInt(Zd);

Assembler Symbols

<Zd>

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

<Zn>

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

Operation

CheckSVEEnabled(); let VL : integer{} = CurrentVL(); let result : bits(VL) = Z{}(n); Z{VL}(d) = result;

Operational information

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


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