Arm® A32/T32 Instruction Set Architecture: Armv8, for Armv8-A architecture profile Documentation

VSUB (floating-point)

Vector Subtract (floating-point) subtracts the elements of one vector from the corresponding elements of another vector, and places the results in the destination vector.

Depending on settings in the CPACR, NSACR, HCPTR, and FPEXC registers, and the Security state and PE mode in which the instruction is executed, an attempt to execute the instruction might be undefined, or trapped to Hyp mode. For more information see Enabling Advanced SIMD and floating-point support.

It has encodings from the following instruction sets: A32 ( A1 and A2 ) and T32 ( T1 and T2 ) .

A1

if Q == '1' && (Vd<0> == '1' || Vn<0> == '1' || Vm<0> == '1') then UNDEFINED;
if sz == '1' && !HaveFP16Ext() then UNDEFINED;
advsimd = TRUE;
case sz of
    when '0' esize = 32; elements = 2;
    when '1' esize = 16; elements = 4;
d = UInt(D:Vd);  n = UInt(N:Vn);  m = UInt(M:Vm);  regs = if Q == '0' then 1 else 2;

A2

if FPSCR.Len != '000' || FPSCR.Stride != '00' then UNDEFINED;
if size == '00' || (size == '01' && !HaveFP16Ext()) then UNDEFINED;
if size == '01' && cond != '1110' then UNPREDICTABLE;
advsimd = FALSE;
case size of
    when '01' esize = 16; d = UInt(Vd:D); n = UInt(Vn:N); m = UInt(Vm:M);
    when '10' esize = 32; d = UInt(Vd:D); n = UInt(Vn:N); m = UInt(Vm:M);
    when '11' esize = 64; d = UInt(D:Vd); n = UInt(N:Vn); m = UInt(M:Vm);

CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behavior

If size == '01' && cond != '1110', then one of the following behaviors must occur:

• The instruction is undefined.
• The instruction executes as if it passes the Condition code check.
• The instruction executes as NOP. This means it behaves as if it fails the Condition code check.

T1

if Q == '1' && (Vd<0> == '1' || Vn<0> == '1' || Vm<0> == '1') then UNDEFINED;
if sz == '1' && !HaveFP16Ext() then UNDEFINED;
if sz == '1' && InITBlock() then UNPREDICTABLE;
advsimd = TRUE;
case sz of
    when '0' esize = 32; elements = 2;
    when '1' esize = 16; elements = 4;
d = UInt(D:Vd);  n = UInt(N:Vn);  m = UInt(M:Vm);  regs = if Q == '0' then 1 else 2;

CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behavior

If sz == '1' && InITBlock(), then one of the following behaviors must occur:

• The instruction is undefined.
• The instruction executes as if it passes the Condition code check.
• The instruction executes as NOP. This means it behaves as if it fails the Condition code check.

T2

if FPSCR.Len != '000' || FPSCR.Stride != '00' then UNDEFINED;
if size == '00' || (size == '01' && !HaveFP16Ext()) then UNDEFINED;
if size == '01' && InITBlock()  then UNPREDICTABLE;
advsimd = FALSE;
case size of
    when '01' esize = 16; d = UInt(Vd:D); n = UInt(Vn:N); m = UInt(Vm:M);
    when '10' esize = 32; d = UInt(Vd:D); n = UInt(Vn:N); m = UInt(Vm:M);
    when '11' esize = 64; d = UInt(D:Vd); n = UInt(N:Vn); m = UInt(M:Vm);

CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behavior

If size == '01' && InITBlock(), then one of the following behaviors must occur:

• The instruction is undefined.
• The instruction executes as if it passes the Condition code check.
• The instruction executes as NOP. This means it behaves as if it fails the Condition code check.

Assembler Symbols

if ConditionPassed() then
    EncodingSpecificOperations();  CheckAdvSIMDOrVFPEnabled(TRUE, advsimd);
    if advsimd then  // Advanced SIMD instruction
        for r = 0 to regs-1
            for e = 0 to elements-1
                Elem[D[d+r],e,esize] = FPSub(Elem[D[n+r],e,esize], Elem[D[m+r],e,esize], StandardFPSCRValue());
    else             // VFP instruction
        case esize of
            when 16
                S[d] = Zeros(16) : FPSub(S[n]<15:0>, S[m]<15:0>, FPSCR);
            when 32
                S[d] = FPSub(S[n], S[m], FPSCR);
            when 64
                D[d] = FPSub(D[n], D[m], FPSCR);