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Modern Assembly Language Programming with the ARM Processor
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Modern Assembly Language Programming with the ARM Processor

by Larry D Pyeatt
May 2016
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
12h 11m
English
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10.9.8 Count Bits

These instructions can be used to count leading sign bits or zeros, or to count the number of bits that are set for each element in a vector:

vcls Count Leading Sign Bits

vclz Count Leading Zero Bits

vcnt Count Set Bits

Syntax

 v<op>.<type> Vd, Vm

 <op> is either cls, clz or cnt.

 The valid choices for <type> are given in the following table:

OpcodeValid Types
vclss8, s16, or s32
vclzu8, u16, or u32
vcnti8

Operations

NameEffectDescription
vcls

n# of elementssi52_e

for 0 ≤ i < n) do

 Vd[i]leading_sign_bits(Vm[i])si161_e

end for

Count the number ...
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