A CPU Instruction Set Details

SDL rt, offset(base)

Description:

This instruction can be used with the SDR instruction to store the contents of a register into eight consecutive bytes of memory, when the bytes cross a doubleword boundary. SDL stores the left portion of the register into the appropriate part of the high-order doubleword of memory; SDR stores the right portion of the register into the appropriate part of the low-order doubleword.

The SDL instruction adds its sign-extended 16-bit offset to the contents of general register base to form a virtual address which may specify an arbitrary byte. It alters only the word in memory which contains that byte. From one to four bytes will be stored, depending on the starting byte specified.

Conceptually, it starts at the most-significant byte of the register and copies it to the specified byte in memory; then it copies bytes from register to memory until it reaches the low-order byte of the word in memory.

No address exceptions due to alignment are possible.

This operation is only defined for the R4000 operating in 64-bit mode. Execution of this instruction in 32-bit mode causes a reserved instruction exception.

Operation:

Given a doubleword in a register and a doubleword in memory, the operation of SDL is as follows:

LEM Little-endian memory (BigEndianMem = 0)
BEM BigEndianMem = 1
Type AccessType (see Table 2-1) sent to memory
Offset pAddr2...0 sent to memory

Exceptions:

TLB refill exception
TLB invalid exception
TLB modification exception
Bus error exception
Address error exception
Reserved instruction exception (R4000 in 32-bit mode)

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