lda

Load Acquire (A32)

LDA<c> <Rt>, [<Rn>]

Loads a word with Acquire semantics.

Pseudocode Operation

Rt ← [Rn]
Acquire_Semantics()

Example

LDA r3, [r1]

Encoding

Binary Layout

cond

31:28

00011

27:23

00

22:21

1

20

Rn

19:16

Rt

15:12

1

11

1

10

0

9

0

8

1001

7:4

1111

3:0

 

Format Load/Store

Opcode 0x01900C9F

Extension A32 (Atomic)

Operands

• Rt
  Transfer general-purpose register (load/store)
• Rn
  First source / base general-purpose register

Related

More in A32 (Atomic)

Reference

View in Arm A64 ISA Reference ↗ Arm AArch32 ISA

Instruction Forms

Encoding	Instruction		ISA		Bit pattern
0x01900C9F	LDA{<c>}{<q>} <Rt>, [<Rn>]		A32		cond | 00011 | 00 | 1 | Rn | Rt | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1001 | 1111
0xE8D00FAF	LDA{<c>}{<q>} <Rt>, [<Rn>]		T32		11101000110 | 1 | Rn | Rt | 1111 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1111

Description

Load-Acquire Word loads a word from memory and writes it to a register. The instruction also has memory ordering semantics as described in Load-Acquire, Store-Release For more information about support for shared memory see Synchronization and semaphores. For information about memory accesses see Memory accesses.

Operation

if ConditionPassed() then
    EncodingSpecificOperations();
    address = R[n];
    R[t] = MemO[address, 4];