User’s Manual
Preliminary PPC440x5 CPU Core
prgmodel.fm.
September 12, 2002 Page 73 of 589
2.6.2.1 Summary Overflow (SO) Field
This field is set to 1 when an instruction is executed that causes XER[OV] to be set to 1, except for the case
of mtspr(XER), which writes XER[SO,OV] with the values in (RS)0:1, respectively. Once set, XER[SO] is not
reset until either an mtspr(XER) is executed with data that explicitly writes 0 to XER[SO], or until an mcrxr
instruction is executed. The mcrxr instruction sets XER[SO] (as well as XER[OV,CA]) to 0 after copying all
three fields into CR[CR0]0:2 (and setting CR[CR0]3 to 0).
Given this behavior, XER[SO] does not necessarily indicate that an overflow occurred on the most recent
integer arithmetic operation, but rather that one occurred at some time subsequent to the last clearing of
XER[SO] by mtspr(XER) or mcrxr.
XER[SO] is read (along with the rest of the XER) into a GPR by mfspr(XER). In addition, various integer
instructions copy XER[SO] into CR[CR0]3 (see Condition Register (CR) on page 67).
Table2-25. XER[SO,OV] Updating Instructions
Integer Arithmetic Auxiliary Processor Processor Con-
trol
Add Subtract Multiply Divide Negate Multiply-Accumu-
late Negative Multi-
ply- Accumulate Register Man-
agement
addo[.]
addco[.]
addeo[.]
addmeo[.]
addzeo[.]
subfo[.]
subfco[.]
subfeo[.]
subfmeo[.]
subfzeo[.]
mullwo[.]divwo[.]
divwuo[.]nego[.]
macchwo[.]
macchwso[.]
macchwsuo[.]
macchwuo[.]
machhwo[.]
machhwso[.]
machhwsuo[.]
machhwuo[.]
maclhwo[.]
maclhwso[.]
maclhwsuo[.]
maclhwuo[.]
nmacchwo[.]
nmacchwso[.]
nmachhwo[.]
nmachhwso[.]
nmaclhwo[.]
nmaclhwso[.]
mtspr
mcrxr
Table2-26. XER[CA] Updating Instructions
Integer Arithmetic Integer
Shift Processor
Control
Add Subtract Shift
Right
Algebraic
Register
Management
addc[o][.]
adde[o][.]
addic[.]
addme[o][.]
addze[o][.]
subfc[o][.]
subfe[o][.]
subfic
subfme[o][.]
subfze[o][.]
sraw[.]
srawi[.]mtspr
mcrxr