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User’s Manual
IBM PowerPC 750GX and 750GL RISC Microprocessor
Conventions Used in This Manual
Notational Conventions
mnemonics | Instruction mnemonics are shown in lowercase bold. | |
italics | Italics indicate variable command parameters. For example: bcctrx. Book titles in text are | |
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| set in italics. |
0x0 | Prefix to denote a hexadecimal number. | |
0b0 | Prefix to denote a binary number. | |
crfD | Instruction syntax used to identify a destination Condition Register (CR) field. | |
rA, rB | Instruction syntax used to identify a source General Purpose Register (GPR). | |
rD | Instruction syntax used to identify a destination GPR. | |
frA, frB, frC | Instruction syntax used to identify a source Floating Point Register (FPR). | |
frD | Instruction syntax used to identify a destination FPR. | |
REG[FIELD] | Abbreviations or acronyms for registers are shown in uppercase text. Specific bits, fields, | |
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| or ranges appear in brackets. For example, MSR[LE] refers to the |
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| enable bit in the Machine State Register. |
x | In certain contexts, such as a signal encoding, this indicates a don’t care. | |
n | Used to express an undefined numerical value. | |
¬ | NOT logical operator. | |
& | AND logical operator. | |
OR logical operator. | ||
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| Indicates reserved bits or bit fields in a register. Although these bits can be written to as |
0 0 0 0 | ||
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| either ones or zeros, they are always read as zeros. |
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| gx_preface.fm.(1.2) |
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