SPLICE

Splice two vectors under predicate control

Copy the first active to last active elements (inclusive) from the first source vector to the lowest-numbered elements of the result. Then set any remaining elements of the result to a copy of the lowest-numbered elements from the second source vector. The result is placed destructively in the destination and first source vector, or constructively in the destination vector.

It has encodings from 2 classes: Constructive and Destructive

Constructive

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00000101size101101100PgZnZd

SPLICE <Zd>.<T>, <Pg>, { <Zn1>.<T>, <Zn2>.<T> }

if !HaveSVE2() then UNDEFINED; integer esize = 8 << UInt(size); integer g = UInt(Pg); integer dst = UInt(Zd); integer s1 = UInt(Zn); integer s2 = (s1 + 1) MOD 32;

Destructive

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00000101size101100100PgZmZdn

SPLICE <Zdn>.<T>, <Pg>, <Zdn>.<T>, <Zm>.<T>

if !HaveSVE() then UNDEFINED; integer esize = 8 << UInt(size); integer g = UInt(Pg); integer dst = UInt(Zdn); integer s1 = dst; integer s2 = UInt(Zm);

Assembler Symbols

<Zd>

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

<Zdn>

Is the name of the first source and destination scalable vector register, encoded in the "Zdn" field.

<T>

Is the size specifier, encoded in size:

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

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

<Zn1>

Is the name of the first scalable vector register of a multi-vector sequence, encoded in the "Zn" field.

<Zn2>

Is the name of the second scalable vector register of a multi-vector sequence, encoded in the "Zn" field.

<Zm>

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

Operation

CheckSVEEnabled(); integer elements = VL DIV esize; bits(PL) mask = P[g]; bits(VL) operand1 = if AnyActiveElement(mask, esize) then Z[s1] else Zeros(); bits(VL) operand2 = Z[s2]; bits(VL) result; integer x = 0; boolean active = FALSE; integer lastnum = LastActiveElement(mask, esize); if lastnum >= 0 then for e = 0 to lastnum active = active || ElemP[mask, e, esize] == '1'; if active then Elem[result, x, esize] = Elem[operand1, e, esize]; x = x + 1; elements = elements - x - 1; for e = 0 to elements Elem[result, x, esize] = Elem[operand2, e, esize]; x = x + 1; Z[dst] = result;

Operational information

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


Internal version only: isa v32.15, AdvSIMD v29.05, pseudocode v2021-03, sve v2021-03_rc2 ; Build timestamp: 2021-03-30T21:36

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