rldicl (Rotate Left Double Word Immediate then Clear Left) Instruction

Purpose

Rotate the contents of a general purpose register left by a specified number of bits, clearing a specified number of high-order bits. The result is placed in another general purpose register.

Syntax

Description

The contents of general purpose register RS are rotated left the number of bits specified by operand SH. A mask is generated containing 1 bits from bit MB through bit 63 and 0 bits elsewhere. The rotated data is ANDed with the generated mask and the result is placed into GPR RA.

Note that rldicl can be used to extract, rotate, shift, and clear bit fields using the methods shown below:

• To extract an n-bit field, which starts at bit position b in RS, right-justified into GPR RA (clearing the remaining 64 - n bits of GPR RA), set SH = b + n and MB = 64 - n.

• To rotate the contents of a register left by n bits, set SH = n and MB = 0; to rotate the contents of a register right by n bits, set SH = (64 - n), and MB = 0.

• To shift the contents of a register right by n bits, set SH = 64 - n and MB = n.

• To clear the high-order n bits of a register, set SH = 0 and MB = n.

Other registers altered:

• Condition Register (CR0 field):

  Affected: LT, GT, EQ, SO (if Rc = 1)

Parameters

Implementation

This instruction is defined only for 64-bit implementations. Using it on a 32-bit implementation will cause the system illegal instruction error handler to be invoked.