LDRSB (immediate)

Load Register Signed Byte (immediate) calculates an address from a base register value and an immediate offset, loads a byte from memory, sign-extends it to form a 32-bit word, and writes it to a register. It can use offset, post-indexed, or pre-indexed addressing. For information about memory accesses see Memory accesses.

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

A1

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
!= 1111000PU1W1!= 1111Rtimm4H1101imm4L
condRn

Offset (P == 1 && W == 0)

LDRSB{<c>}{<q>} <Rt>, [<Rn> {, #{+/-}<imm>}]

Post-indexed (P == 0 && W == 0)

LDRSB{<c>}{<q>} <Rt>, [<Rn>], #{+/-}<imm>

Pre-indexed (P == 1 && W == 1)

LDRSB{<c>}{<q>} <Rt>, [<Rn>, #{+/-}<imm>]!

if Rn == '1111' then SEE "LDRSB (literal)"; if P == '0' && W == '1' then SEE "LDRSBT"; constant t = UInt(Rt); constant n = UInt(Rn); constant imm32 = ZeroExtend(imm4H:imm4L, 32); constant index = (P == '1'); constant add = (U == '1'); constant wback = (P == '0') || (W == '1'); if t == 15 || (wback && n == t) then UNPREDICTABLE;

CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behavior

If wback && n == t, then one of the following behaviors must occur:

T1

15141312111098765432101514131211109876543210
111110011001!= 1111!= 1111imm12
RnRt

T1

LDRSB{<c>}{<q>} <Rt>, [<Rn> {, #{+}<imm>}]

if Rt == '1111' then SEE "PLI"; if Rn == '1111' then SEE "LDRSB (literal)"; constant t = UInt(Rt); constant n = UInt(Rn); constant imm32 = ZeroExtend(imm12, 32); constant index = TRUE; constant add = TRUE; constant wback = FALSE; // Armv8-A removes UNPREDICTABLE for R13

T2

15141312111098765432101514131211109876543210
111110010001!= 1111Rt1PUWimm8
Rn

Offset (Rt != 1111 && P == 1 && U == 0 && W == 0)

LDRSB{<c>}{<q>} <Rt>, [<Rn> {, #-<imm>}]

Post-indexed (P == 0 && W == 1)

LDRSB{<c>}{<q>} <Rt>, [<Rn>], #{+/-}<imm>

Pre-indexed (P == 1 && W == 1)

LDRSB{<c>}{<q>} <Rt>, [<Rn>, #{+/-}<imm>]!

if Rt == '1111' && P == '1' && U == '0' && W == '0' then SEE "PLI"; if Rn == '1111' then SEE "LDRSB (literal)"; if P == '1' && U == '1' && W == '0' then SEE "LDRSBT"; if P == '0' && W == '0' then UNDEFINED; constant t = UInt(Rt); constant n = UInt(Rn); constant imm32 = ZeroExtend(imm8, 32); constant index = (P == '1'); constant add = (U == '1'); constant wback = (W == '1'); if (t == 15 && W == '1') || (wback && n == t) then UNPREDICTABLE; // Armv8-A removes UNPREDICTABLE for R13

CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behavior

If wback && n == t, then one of the following behaviors must occur:

For more information about the constrained unpredictable behavior of this instruction, see Architectural Constraints on UNPREDICTABLE behaviors.

Assembler Symbols

<c>

See Standard assembler syntax fields.

<q>

See Standard assembler syntax fields.

<Rt>

Is the general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt" field.

<Rn>

Is the general-purpose base register, encoded in the "Rn" field. For PC use see LDRSB (literal).

+/-

Specifies the offset is added to or subtracted from the base register, defaulting to + if omitted and encoded in U:

U +/-
0 -
1 +
+

Specifies the offset is added to the base register.

<imm>

For encoding A1: is the 8-bit unsigned immediate byte offset, in the range 0 to 255, defaulting to 0 if omitted, and encoded in the "imm4H:imm4L" field.

For encoding T1: is an optional 12-bit unsigned immediate byte offset, in the range 0 to 4095, defaulting to 0 and encoded in the "imm12" field.

For encoding T2: is an 8-bit unsigned immediate byte offset, in the range 0 to 255, defaulting to 0 if omitted, and encoded in the "imm8" field.

Operation

if ConditionPassed() then EncodingSpecificOperations(); constant offset_addr = if add then (R[n] + imm32) else (R[n] - imm32); constant address = if index then offset_addr else R[n]; R[t] = SignExtend(MemU[address,1], 32); if wback then R[n] = offset_addr;

Operational information

If CPSR.DIT is 1, the timing of this instruction is insensitive to the value of the data being loaded or stored.


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