Assembler Language Reference

fnmadd or fnma (Floating Negative Multiply-Add) Instruction

Purpose

Multiplies two floating-point operands, adds the result to one floating-point operand, and places the negative of the result in a floating-point register.

Syntax

Description

The fnmadd and fnma instructions multiply the 64-bit, double-precision floating-point operand in floating-point register (FPR) FRA by the 64,bit, double-precision floating-point operand in FPR FRC, and add the 64-bit, double-precision floating-point operand in FPR FRB to the result of the multiplication.

The fnmadds instruction multiplies the 32-bit, single-precision floating-point operand in FPR FRA by the 32-bit, single-precision floating-point operand in FPR FRC, and adds the 32-bit, single-precision floating-point operand in FPR FRB to the result of the multiplication.

The result of the addition is rounded under control of the Floating-Point Rounding Control Field RN of the Floating-Point Status and Control Register.

Note: If an operand is a denormalized number, then it is prenormalized before the operation is begun.

The fnmadd and fnma instructions are identical to the fmadd and fma (Floating Multiply- Add Single) instructions with the final result negated, but with the following exceptions:

• Quiet NaNs (QNaNs) propagate with no effect on their "sign" bit.
• QNaNs that are generated as the result of a disabled Invalid Operation Exception have a "sign" bit of 0.
• Signaling NaNs (SNaNs) that are converted to QNaNs as the result of a disabled Invalid Operation Exception have no effect on their "sign" bit.

The Floating-Point Result Flags Field of the Floating-Point Status and Control Register is set to the class and sign of the result, except for Invalid Operation Exceptions, when the Floating-Point Invalid Operation Exception Enable bit is 1.

The fnmadd, fnmadds, and fnma instructions each have two syntax forms. Each syntax form has a different effect on Condition Register Field 1.

All syntax forms of the fnmadd, fnmadds, and fnma instructions always affect the Floating-Point Status and Control Register. If the syntax form sets the Record (Rc) bit to 1, the instruction affects the Floating-Point Exception (FX), Floating-Point Enabled Exception (FEX), Floating-Point Invalid Operation Exception (VX), and Floating-Point Overflow Exception (OX) bits in Condition Register Field 1.

Note: Rounding occurs before the result of the addition is negated. Depending on RN, an inexact value may result.

Parameters

Examples

1. The following code multiplies the contents of FPR 4 and FPR 5, adds the result to the contents of FPR 7, stores the negated result in FPR 6, and sets the Floating-Point Status and Control Register to reflect the result of the operation:

   # Assume FPR 4 contains 0xC053 4000 0000 0000.
   # Assume FPR 5 contains 0x400C 0000 0000 0000.
   # Assume FPR 7 contains 0x3DE2 6AB4 B33c 110A.
   # Assume FPSCR = 0.
   fnmadd 6,4,5,7
   # FPR 6 now contains 0x4070 D7FF FFFF F6CB.
   # FPSCR now contains 0x8206 4000.

2. The following code multiplies the contents of FPR 4 and FPR 5, adds the result to the contents of FPR 7, stores the negated result in FPR 6, and sets the Floating-Point Status and Control Register and Condition Register Field 1 to reflect the result of the operation:

   # Assume FPR 4 contains 0xC053 4000 0000 0000.
   # Assume FPR 5 contains 0x400C 0000 0000 0000.
   # Assume FPR 7 contains 0x3DE2 6AB4 B33c 110A.
   # Assume FPSCR = 0 and CR = 0.
   fnmadd. 6,4,5,7
   # FPR 6 now contains 0x4070 D7FF FFFF F6CB.
   # FPSCR now contains 0x8206 4000.
   # CR now contains 0x0800 0000.

Related Information

Floating-Point Processor .

Interpreting the Contents of a Floating-Point Register .