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CONSOLIDATION.md Phase 6. Both lived untracked in the project root -- on one
disk, backed up by nothing.
tools/ppc-manual/ 393 files, 3.7 MB. 455 instructions, 350 family pages,
598 mnemonics resolvable through index.json, plus the
generator that produced them.
tools/run-canary.sh the oracle launcher.
🔴 THE LAUNCHER WAS BROKEN IN TWO WAYS AND IS REWRITTEN, not copied:
* it pointed at `xenia-rs/sylpheed.iso`, a SYMLINK. Wine cannot resolve one
and says "path invalid", which reads as a corrupt image rather than a path
problem -- it has cost a session before. It now points at the real file and
warns if handed a symlink.
* it hardcoded one machine's absolute paths, and named `xenia-rs`, which this
consolidation retires. Now derived from the script's own location, with
SYLPH_CANARY_BIN / SYLPH_ISO overrides and a check that each exists.
The standing constraints are in its header where someone will read them: one
emulator at a time, Canary runs MUTED, and never judge a crash or a hang from
a Bash-launched run -- a SIGKILL that looked like the binary was the editor's
process supervisor.
⚠️ The manual's GENERATOR reads the xenia-rs source tree, which is going away.
Its decoder now lives here as crates/sylpheed-ppc, so the generator must be
repointed before it is run again. Recorded in the README rather than left for
someone to discover; the manual's content is checked in and regenerates from
nothing implicitly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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vrlb — Vector Rotate Left Integer Byte
Category: VMX (Altivec) · Form: VX · Opcode:
0x10000004
Assembler Mnemonics
| Mnemonic | XML entry | Flags | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
vrlb |
vrlb |
— | Vector Rotate Left Integer Byte |
Syntax
vrlb [VD], [VA], [VB]
Encoding
vrlb — form VX
- Opcode word:
0x10000004 - Primary opcode (bits 0–5):
4 - Extended opcode:
4 - Synchronising: no
| Bits | Field | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 0–5 | OPCD |
primary opcode (4) |
| 6–10 | VRT/VD |
destination vector register |
| 11–15 | VRA/VA |
source A vector register |
| 16–20 | VRB/VB |
source B vector register |
| 21–31 | XO |
extended opcode (11 bits) |
Operands
| Field | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
VA |
vrlb: read | Source A vector register. |
VB |
vrlb: read | Source B vector register. |
VD |
vrlb: write | Destination vector register. |
Register Effects
vrlb
- Reads (always):
VA,VB - Reads (conditional): none
- Writes (always):
VD - Writes (conditional): none
Status-Register Effects
No condition-register or status-register effects.
Operation (pseudocode)
; Pseudocode derives directly from the xenia-rs interpreter
; arm (see Implementation References). Operation semantics:
; - Read source operands from the fields listed under Operands.
; - Apply the arithmetic / logical / memory action described
; in the Description field above.
; - Write results to the destination register(s); update any
; status bits enumerated under Status-Register Effects.
; Consult the IBM AIX reference link under IBM Reference for
; canonical PPC-style pseudocode where xenia's expression is
; terse.
C Translation Example
/* C translation: the xenia-rs interpreter arm below in */
/* Implementation References is the authoritative semantic */
/* snapshot. Translate it line-by-line: */
/* - ctx.gpr[N] -> r[N] (or f[]/v[] for FPRs/VRs) */
/* - mem.read_u*/write_u* -> mem_read_u*_be / mem_write_u*_be */
/* - ctx.update_cr_signed(fld, v) -> update_cr_signed(fld, v) */
/* - ctx.xer_ca / xer_ov / xer_so -> xer.CA / xer.OV / xer.SO */
/* The Register Effects and Status-Register Effects tables above */
/* enumerate every side effect a faithful translation must emit. */
Implementation References
vrlb
- xenia-canary XML:
tools/ppc-instructions.xml— search formnem="vrlb" - xenia-canary emit:
src/xenia/cpu/ppc/ppc_emit_altivec.cc:1286 - xenia-rs opcode:
crates/xenia-cpu/src/opcode.rs:119 - xenia-rs decoder:
crates/xenia-cpu/src/decoder.rs:436 - xenia-rs interpreter:
crates/xenia-cpu/src/interpreter.rs:3876-3883
xenia-rs interpreter body (frozen snapshot)
PpcOpcode::vrlb => {
let a = ctx.vr[instr.ra()].as_bytes();
let b = ctx.vr[instr.rb()].as_bytes();
let mut r = [0u8; 16];
for i in 0..16 { r[i] = a[i].rotate_left((b[i] & 7) as u32); }
ctx.vr[instr.rd()] = xenia_types::Vec128::from_bytes(r);
ctx.pc += 4;
}
Special Cases & Edge Conditions
- Per-lane left-rotate of bytes. For each of the 16 byte lanes,
VD.b[i] = rotate_left(VA.b[i], VB.b[i] & 7). The low 3 bits of each shift-count byte are used; upper bits are ignored. - Shift counts are per-lane, not scalar. Unlike most CPUs' vector rotate, Altivec's shift/rotate takes a whole vector as the shift-count. If you want a uniform rotate, splat first with
vspltb. - Big-endian byte lanes.
VA.b[0]is the most significant byte. - No overflow, no sticky saturation. Rotation is information-preserving.
- No
Rc, no XER, no VSCR side-effect. - No VMX128 sibling. Xenon software that needs per-byte rotation typically uses
vrlwon pre-swizzled data.
Related Instructions
vrlh,vrlw— half-word / word rotates (same "per-lane rotate count" pattern).vslb,vsrb,vsrab— byte shift-left / logical-right / arithmetic-right.vsl,vsr,vslo,vsro— whole-register shifts.vspltb— splat to build a uniform shift-count vector.