User’s Manual
PPC440x5 CPU Core Preliminary
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September 12, 2002
2.6.2 Integer Exception Register (XER)
The XER records overflow and carry indications from integer arithmetic and shift instructions. It also provides
a byte count for string indexed integer storage access instructions (lswx and stswx). Note that the term
exceptionin the name of this register does not refer to exceptions as they relate to interrupts, but rather to the
arithmetic exceptions of carry and overflow.
Figure 2-7 illustrates the fields of the XER, while Tables 2-25 and 2-26 list the instructions which update
XER[SO,OV] and the XER[CA] fields, respectively. The sections which follow the figure and tables describe
the fields of the XER in more detail.
Access to the XER is non-privileged.
Figure 2-7. Integer Exception Register (XER)
0SO
Summary Overflow
0 No overflow has occurred.
1 Overflow has occurred.
Can beset by mtspr or by integer or auxiliary
processor instructions with the [o] option; can be
reset bymtspr or by mcrxr.
1OV
Overflow
0 No overflow has occurred.
1 Overflow has occurred.
Can beset by mtspr or by integer or allocated
instructions with the [o] option; can bereset by
mtspr, bymcrxr, or by integer or allocated
instructions with the [o] option.
2CA
Carry
0 Carry has not occurred.
1 Carry has occurred.
Can beset by mtspr or by certain integer arith-
metic and shift instructions; can bereset by
mtspr,bymcrxr,orby certain integer arithmetic
and shift instructions.
3:24 Reserved
25:31 TBC Transfer Byte Count Usedas a byte count by lswx and stswx; written
bydlmzb[.] and by mtspr.
0123 24 25 31
SO
OV
CA TBC