From 5d02ff52cf8dbf9de68d6e9880731d059a2775bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 00:33:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/svp64.mdwn | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/svp64.mdwn b/openpower/sv/svp64.mdwn index 42bf34158..7b7dce40e 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/svp64.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/svp64.mdwn @@ -61,13 +61,15 @@ which is a different convention from that used elsewhere in the Power ISA. The SVP64 prefix always comes before the suffix in PC order and must be considered an independent "Defined word" that augments the behaviour of the following instruction, but does **not** change the actual Decoding -of that following instruction. **All prefixed instructions retain their -non-prefixed encoding and definition**. +of that following instruction. **All prefixed 32-bit instructions +(Defined Words) retain their non-prefixed encoding and definition**. Two apparent exceptions to the above hard rule exist: SV Branch-Conditional operations and LD/ST-update "Post-Increment" Mode. Post-Increment was considered sufficiently high priority (significantly reducing hot-loop -instruction count) that one bit in the Prefix is reserved for it. +instruction count) that one bit in the Prefix is reserved for it +(Note the intention to release that bit and move Post-Increment instructions +to EXT2xx). Vectorised Branch-Conditional operations "embed" the original Scalar Branch-Conditional behaviour into a much more advanced variant that is highly suited to High-Performance Computation (HPC), Supercomputing, -- 2.30.2