Sylpheed/tools/ppc-manual/memory/stfd.md

stfd — Store Floating-Point Double

Category: Memory · Form: D · Opcode: 0xd8000000

Assembler Mnemonics

Mnemonic	XML entry	Flags	Description
stfd	stfd	—	Store Floating-Point Double
stfdu	stfdu	—	Store Floating-Point Double with Update
stfdux	stfdux	—	Store Floating-Point Double with Update Indexed
stfdx	stfdx	—	Store Floating-Point Double Indexed

Syntax

stfd [FS], [d]([RA0])
stfdu [FS], [d]([RA])
stfdux [FS], [RA], [RB]
stfdx [FS], [RA0], [RB]

Encoding

stfd — form D

• Opcode word: 0xd8000000
• Primary opcode (bits 0–5): 54
• Extended opcode: —
• Synchronising: no

Bits	Field	Meaning
0–5	OPCD	primary opcode
6–10	RT	destination GPR (or RS when storing)
11–15	RA	source GPR (0 ⇒ literal 0 for RA0 forms)
16–31	D/SI/UI	16-bit signed or unsigned immediate

stfdu — form D

• Opcode word: 0xdc000000
• Primary opcode (bits 0–5): 55
• Extended opcode: —
• Synchronising: no

Bits	Field	Meaning
0–5	OPCD	primary opcode
6–10	RT	destination GPR (or RS when storing)
11–15	RA	source GPR (0 ⇒ literal 0 for RA0 forms)
16–31	D/SI/UI	16-bit signed or unsigned immediate

stfdux — form X

• Opcode word: 0x7c0005ee
• Primary opcode (bits 0–5): 31
• Extended opcode: 759
• Synchronising: no

Bits	Field	Meaning
0–5	OPCD	primary opcode
6–10	RT/FRT/VRT	destination
11–15	RA/FRA/VRA	source A
16–20	RB/FRB/VRB	source B
21–30	XO	extended opcode (10 bits)
31	Rc	record-form flag

stfdx — form X

• Opcode word: 0x7c0005ae
• Primary opcode (bits 0–5): 31
• Extended opcode: 727
• Synchronising: no

Bits	Field	Meaning
0–5	OPCD	primary opcode
6–10	RT/FRT/VRT	destination
11–15	RA/FRA/VRA	source A
16–20	RB/FRB/VRB	source B
21–30	XO	extended opcode (10 bits)
31	Rc	record-form flag

Operands

Field	Role	Description
FS	stfd: read; stfdu: read; stfdux: read; stfdx: read	Source floating-point register.
RA0	stfd: read; stfdx: read	Source GPR; when the encoded register number is 0 the operand is the literal 64-bit zero, not r0.
d	stfd: read; stfdu: read	16-bit signed displacement (d) added to the base address register.
RA	stfdu: read; stfdu: write; stfdux: read; stfdux: write	Source GPR (r0–r31).
RB	stfdux: read; stfdx: read	Source GPR.

Register Effects

stfd

• Reads (always): FS, RA0, d
• Reads (conditional): none
• Writes (always): none
• Writes (conditional): none

stfdu

• Reads (always): FS, RA, d
• Reads (conditional): none
• Writes (always): RA
• Writes (conditional): none

stfdux

• Reads (always): FS, RA, RB
• Reads (conditional): none
• Writes (always): RA
• Writes (conditional): none

stfdx

• Reads (always): FS, RA0, RB
• Reads (conditional): none
• Writes (always): none
• Writes (conditional): none

Status-Register Effects

No condition-register or status-register effects.

Operation (pseudocode)

EA <- (RA|0) + EXTS(d)
MEM(EA, 8) <- (FRS)

C Translation Example

/* No hand-written C yet. Translate the Canary emitter snapshot   */
/* under Implementation References; its HIR maps directly:        */
/*   f.LoadGPR(n) / f.StoreGPR(n, v)  -> r[n] / r[n] = v          */
/*   f.LoadFPR / StoreFPR, f.LoadVR / StoreVR -> f[n], v[n]        */
/*   f.Load(ea, T), f.Store(ea, v) -> raw read / write; emitters   */
/*     wrap them in f.ByteSwap for the big-endian guest value      */
/*   f.UpdateCR(n, v)  -> CR field n from v's LOW 32 BITS vs 0     */
/*   f.LoadCA / f.StoreCA -> xer.CA;  f.StoreSAT -> vscr.SAT       */
/*   i.XO.RA, i.D.DS, ... -> the bit-fields listed under Operands  */
/* The Register Effects and Status-Register Effects tables above  */
/* enumerate every side effect a faithful translation must emit.  */

Implementation References

stfd

• Canary XML: tools/ppc-instructions.xml — search for mnem="stfd"
• Canary emitter: src/xenia/cpu/ppc/ppc_emit_memory.cc:1014
• Sylpheed opcode: crates/sylpheed-ppc/src/opcode.rs:237
• Sylpheed decoder: crates/sylpheed-ppc/src/decoder.rs:492

Canary emitter (frozen snapshot @ f21ebd49e9)

int InstrEmit_stfd(PPCHIRBuilder& f, const InstrData& i) {
  // if RA = 0 then
  //   b <- 0
  // else
  //   b <- (RA)
  // EA <- b + EXTS(D)
  // MEM(EA, 8) <- (FRS)
  Value* ea = CalculateEA_0_i(f, i.D.RA, XEEXTS16(i.D.DS));
  f.Store(ea, f.ByteSwap(f.Cast(f.LoadFPR(i.D.RT), INT64_TYPE)));
  return 0;
}

stfdu

• Canary XML: tools/ppc-instructions.xml — search for mnem="stfdu"
• Canary emitter: src/xenia/cpu/ppc/ppc_emit_memory.cc:1026
• Sylpheed opcode: crates/sylpheed-ppc/src/opcode.rs:238
• Sylpheed decoder: crates/sylpheed-ppc/src/decoder.rs:493

Canary emitter (frozen snapshot @ f21ebd49e9)

int InstrEmit_stfdu(PPCHIRBuilder& f, const InstrData& i) {
  // EA <- (RA) + EXTS(D)
  // MEM(EA, 8) <- (FRS)
  // RA <- EA
  Value* ea = CalculateEA_i(f, i.D.RA, XEEXTS16(i.D.DS));
  f.Store(ea, f.ByteSwap(f.Cast(f.LoadFPR(i.D.RT), INT64_TYPE)));
  StoreEA(f, i.D.RA, ea);
  return 0;
}

stfdux

• Canary XML: tools/ppc-instructions.xml — search for mnem="stfdux"
• Canary emitter: src/xenia/cpu/ppc/ppc_emit_memory.cc:1036
• Sylpheed opcode: crates/sylpheed-ppc/src/opcode.rs:239
• Sylpheed decoder: crates/sylpheed-ppc/src/decoder.rs:952

Canary emitter (frozen snapshot @ f21ebd49e9)

int InstrEmit_stfdux(PPCHIRBuilder& f, const InstrData& i) {
  // EA <- (RA) + (RB)
  // MEM(EA, 8) <- (FRS)
  // RA <- EA
  Value* ea = CalculateEA(f, i.X.RA, i.X.RB);
  f.Store(ea, f.ByteSwap(f.Cast(f.LoadFPR(i.X.RT), INT64_TYPE)));
  StoreEA(f, i.X.RA, ea);
  return 0;
}

stfdx

• Canary XML: tools/ppc-instructions.xml — search for mnem="stfdx"
• Canary emitter: src/xenia/cpu/ppc/ppc_emit_memory.cc:1046
• Sylpheed opcode: crates/sylpheed-ppc/src/opcode.rs:240
• Sylpheed decoder: crates/sylpheed-ppc/src/decoder.rs:951

Canary emitter (frozen snapshot @ f21ebd49e9)

int InstrEmit_stfdx(PPCHIRBuilder& f, const InstrData& i) {
  // if RA = 0 then
  //   b <- 0
  // else
  //   b <- (RA)
  // EA <- b + (RB)
  // MEM(EA, 8) <- (FRS)
  Value* ea = CalculateEA_0(f, i.X.RA, i.X.RB);
  f.Store(ea, f.ByteSwap(f.Cast(f.LoadFPR(i.X.RT), INT64_TYPE)));
  return 0;
}

Special Cases & Edge Conditions

• Bit-exact double store. Writes the 64-bit IEEE binary64 contents of FRS directly to memory; no rounding, no format conversion. Canary reinterprets the FPR as a 64-bit integer (Cast) and stores it byte-swapped, which preserves the exact bit pattern (including signalling NaNs).
• No FPSCR side effects. Like lfd, stfd cannot raise IEEE exceptions: there is no rounding step. Contrast stfs, where double→single rounding can raise inexact / overflow / underflow.
• RA0 (non-update forms). RA = 0 in stfd and stfdx selects literal zero. Update forms stfdu / stfdux invoke RA = 0 as an invalid form.
• Update-form post-write. stfdu / stfdux write the computed EA back to RA after the store. No FRS / RA collision possible — RS is an FPR, RA is a GPR.
• Big-endian write. Byte at EA is the FPR's most-significant byte (sign + part of exponent), byte at EA+7 is the least-significant mantissa byte. Canary byte-swaps before the host store.
• Alignment. Xenon tolerates unaligned 8-byte FP stores. PowerISA permits implementations to raise alignment exceptions on cache-inhibited storage.
• MSR[FP] required. Disabled FP unit raises Floating-Point Unavailable.

Related Instructions

• lfd, lfdu, lfdx, lfdux — corresponding loads.
• stfs — single-precision store with format conversion (can raise FPSCR).
• stfiwx — store low 32 bits of FPR as integer word.
• std — integer doubleword store (same width, GPR source).

IBM Reference

• AIX 7.3 — stfd (Store Floating-Point Double)
• AIX 7.3 — stfdu / stfdx / stfdux