Encoding:

Format:

DSBH rd, rt

Purpose:

Doubleword Swap Bytes Within Halfwords

To swap the bytes within each halfword of GPR rt and store the value into GPR rd.

Description:

 GPR[rd] = SwapBytesWithinHalfwords(GPR[rt])

Within each halfword of GPR rt the bytes are swapped and stored in GPR rd.

Restrictions:

In implementations Release 1 of the architecture, this instruction resulted in a Reserved Instruction exception.

Operation:

GPR[rd] = GPR[t]55.48 || GPR[t]63..56 || GPR[t]39..32 || GPR[t]47..40 ||
          GPR[t]23..16 || GPR[t]31..24 || GPR[t]7..0 || GPR[t]15..8

Exceptions:

Reserved Instruction

Programming Notes:

The DSBH and DSHD instructions can be used to convert doubleword data of one endianness to the other endianness.

For example:

ld    t0, 0(a1)           /* Read doubleword value */
dsbh  t0, t0              /* Convert endiannes of the halfwords */
dshd  t0, t0              /* Swap the halfwords within the doublewords */