Encoding:

Format:

SDL rt, offset(base)

Purpose:

Store Doubleword Left

To store the most-significant part of a doubleword to an unaligned memory address.

Description:

 memory[GPR[base] + offset] = Some_Bytes_From GPR[rt]

The 16-bit signed offset is added to the contents of GPR base to form an effective address (EffAddr). EffAddr is the address of the most-significant of 8 consecutive bytes forming a doubleword (DW) in memory, starting at an arbitrary byte boundary.

A part of DW, the most-significant 1 to 8 bytes, is in the aligned doubleword containing EffAddr. The same number of most-significant (left) bytes of GPR rt are stored into these bytes of DW.

The figure below illustrates this operation for big-endian byte ordering. The 8 consecutive bytes in 2..9 form an unaligned doubleword starting at location 2. A part of DW (6 bytes) is located in the aligned doubleword containing the most-significant byte at 2.

Restrictions:

Availability and Compatibility:

Release 6 removes the load/store-left/right family of instructions, and requires the system to support misaligned memory access.

Operation:

vAddr = sign_extend(offset) + GPR[base]
(pAddr, CCA) = AddressTranslation (vAddr, DATA, STORE)
pAddr = pAddrPSIZE-1..3 || (pAddr2..0 xor ReverseEndian3)
If BigEndianMem = 0 then 
   pAddr = pAddrPSIZE-1..3 || 03
endif
bytesel = vAddr2..0 xor BigEndianCPU3
datadoubleword = 056-8*bytesel || GPR[rt]63..56-8*bytesel
StoreMemory (CCA, byte, datadoubleword, pAddr, vAddr, DATA)

Exceptions:

TLB Refill, TLB Invalid, TLB Modified, Bus Error, Address Error, Reserved Instruction, Watch