x86 Instruction Set Reference

CMPSD - Compare Scalar Double-Precision Floating-Point Values

Opcode Mnemonic Description
F2 0F C2 /r ib CMPSD xmm1, xmm2/m64, imm8 Compare low double-precision floating-point value in xmm2/m64 and xmm1 using imm8 as comparison predicate.
Description

Compares the low double-precision floating-point values in the source operand (second operand) and the destination operand (first operand) and returns the results of the comparison to the destination operand. The comparison predicate operand (third operand) specifies the type of comparison performed. The comparison result is a quadword mask of all 1s (comparison true) or all 0s (comparison false). The source operand can be an XMM register or a 64-bit memory location. The destination operand is an XMM register. The result is stored in the low quadword of the destination operand; the high quadword remains unchanged. The comparison predicate operand is an 8-bit immediate the first 3 bits of which define the type of comparison to be made (see the following table); bits 4 through 7 of the immediate are reserved.

The unordered relationship is true when at least one of the two source operands being compared is a NaN; the ordered relationship is true when neither source operand is a NaN.

A subsequent computational instruction that uses the mask result in the destination operand as an input operand will not generate a fault, because a mask of all 0s corresponds to a floating-point value of +0.0 and a mask of all 1s corresponds to a QNaN.

Some of the comparisons listed in the following table can be achieved only through software emulation.

For these comparisons the program must swap the operands (copying registers when necessary to protect the data that will now be in the destination operand), and then perform the compare using a different predicate. The predicate to be used for these emulations is listed in the following table under the heading Emulation.

Compilers and assemblers may implement the following two-operand pseudo-ops in addition to the three-operand CMPSD instruction. See the following table.

Pseudo-OpImplementation
CMPEQSD xmm1, xmm2CMPSD xmm1,xmm2, 0
CMPLTSD xmm1, xmm2CMPSD xmm1,xmm2, 1
CMPLESD xmm1, xmm2CMPSD xmm1,xmm2, 2
CMPUNORDSD xmm1, xmm2CMPSD xmm1,xmm2, 3
CMPNEQSD xmm1, xmm2CMPSD xmm1,xmm2, 4
CMPNLTSD xmm1, xmm2CMPSD xmm1,xmm2, 5
CMPNLESD xmm1, xmm2CMPSD xmm1,xmm2, 6
CMPORDSD xmm1, xmm2CMPSD xmm1,xmm2, 7

The greater-than relations not implemented in the processor require more than one instruction to emulate in software and therefore should not be implemented as pseudo-ops. (For these, the programmer should reverse the operands of the corresponding less than relations and use move instructions to ensure that the mask is moved to the correct destination register and that the source operand is left intact.)

Operation
switch(ComparisonPredicate) {
	case 0:
		Operator = OperatorEqual;
		break;
	case 1:
		Operator = OperatorLessThan;
		break;
	case 2:
		Operator = OperatorLessOrEqual;
		break;
	case 3:
		Operator = OperatorUnordered;
		break;
	case 4:
		Operator = OperatorNotEqual;
		break;
	case 5:
		Operator = OperatorNotLessThan;
		break;
	case 6:
		Operator = OperatorNotLessOrEqual;
		break;
	case 7:
		Operator = OperatorOrdered;
		break;
	default:
		Reserved();
}
CMP0 = Destination[0..63] Operator Source[0..63];
if(CMP0 == true) Destination[0..63] = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF;
else Destination[0..63] = 0;
//Destination[64..127] remains unchanged
SIMD Floating-Point Exceptions
Invalid if SNaN operand, Invalid if QNaN and predicate as listed in above table, Denormal.
Protected Mode Exceptions
#GP(0)For an illegal memory operand effective address in the CS, DS, ES, FS or GS segments.
#GP(0)For an illegal memory operand effective address in the CS, DS, ES, FS or GS segments.
#SS(0)For an illegal address in the SS segment.
#PF(fault-code)For a page fault.
#NMIf TS in CR0 is set.
#XMIf an unmasked SIMD floating-point exception and OSXMMEXCPT in CR4 is 1.
#UDIf an unmasked SIMD floating-point exception and OSXMMEXCPT in CR4 is 0. If EM in CR0 is set. If OSFXSR in CR4 is 0. If CPUID feature flag SSE2 is 0.
Real-Address Mode Exceptions
#GP(0)If any part of the operand lies outside the effective address space from 0 to FFFFH.
#GP(0)If any part of the operand lies outside the effective address space from 0 to FFFFH.
#NMIf TS in CR0 is set.
#XMIf an unmasked SIMD floating-point exception and OSXMMEXCPT in CR4 is 1.
Virtual-8086 Mode Exceptions
Same exceptions as in Real Address Mode
#PF(fault-code)For a page fault.
#PF(fault-code)For a page fault.