4.10.17 IEEE Floating Divide

Format:

DIVxFa.rx,Fb.rx,Fc.wx!Floating-point Operate format

Operation:

Fc Fav / Fbv

Exceptions:

Invalid Operation

Division by Zero

Overflow

Underflow

Inexact Result

Instruction mnemonics:

DIVS

Divide S_floating

DIVT

Divide T_floating

Qualifiers:

Rounding:

Dynamic (/D)

 

Minus infinity (/M)

 

Chopped (/C)

Trapping:

Exception Completion (/S)

 

Underflow Enable (/U)

 

Inexact Enable (/I)

Description:

The dividend operand in register Fa is divided by the divisor operand in register Fb and the quotient is written to register Fc.

The quotient is rounded to the specified precision and then the corresponding range is checked for overflow/underflow. The single-precision operation on canonical single-precision values produces a canonical single-precision result.

See Section 4.7.7 for details of the stored result on overflow, underflow, or inexact result.

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