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Next: <a href="Byte.html#Byte" accesskey="n" rel="next">Byte</a>, Previous: <a href="Balign.html#Balign" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Balign</a>, Up: <a href="Pseudo-Ops.html#Pseudo-Ops" accesskey="u" rel="up">Pseudo Ops</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="AS-Index.html#AS-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h3 class="section">7.8 Bundle directives</h3>
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<h4 class="subsection">7.8.1 <code>.bundle_align_mode <var>abs-expr</var></code></h4>
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<p><code>.bundle_align_mode</code> enables or disables <em>aligned instruction
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bundle</em> mode. In this mode, sequences of adjacent instructions are grouped
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into fixed-sized <em>bundles</em>. If the argument is zero, this mode is
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disabled (which is the default state). If the argument it not zero, it
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gives the size of an instruction bundle as a power of two (as for the
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<code>.p2align</code> directive, see <a href="P2align.html#P2align">P2align</a>).
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<p>For some targets, it’s an ABI requirement that no instruction may span a
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certain aligned boundary. A <em>bundle</em> is simply a sequence of
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instructions that starts on an aligned boundary. For example, if
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<var>abs-expr</var> is <code>5</code> then the bundle size is 32, so each aligned
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chunk of 32 bytes is a bundle. When aligned instruction bundle mode is in
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effect, no single instruction may span a boundary between bundles. If an
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instruction would start too close to the end of a bundle for the length of
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that particular instruction to fit within the bundle, then the space at the
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end of that bundle is filled with no-op instructions so the instruction
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starts in the next bundle. As a corollary, it’s an error if any single
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instruction’s encoding is longer than the bundle size.
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<h4 class="subsection">7.8.2 <code>.bundle_lock</code> and <code>.bundle_unlock</code></h4>
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<p>The <code>.bundle_lock</code> and directive <code>.bundle_unlock</code> directives
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allow explicit control over instruction bundle padding. These directives
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are only valid when <code>.bundle_align_mode</code> has been used to enable
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aligned instruction bundle mode. It’s an error if they appear when
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<code>.bundle_align_mode</code> has not been used at all, or when the last
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directive was <code><span class="nolinebreak">.bundle_align_mode</span> 0</code><!-- /@w -->.
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<p>For some targets, it’s an ABI requirement that certain instructions may
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appear only as part of specified permissible sequences of multiple
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instructions, all within the same bundle. A pair of <code>.bundle_lock</code>
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and <code>.bundle_unlock</code> directives define a <em>bundle-locked</em>
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instruction sequence. For purposes of aligned instruction bundle mode, a
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sequence starting with <code>.bundle_lock</code> and ending with
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<code>.bundle_unlock</code> is treated as a single instruction. That is, the
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entire sequence must fit into a single bundle and may not span a bundle
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boundary. If necessary, no-op instructions will be inserted before the
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first instruction of the sequence so that the whole sequence starts on an
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aligned bundle boundary. It’s an error if the sequence is longer than the
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bundle size.
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<p>For convenience when using <code>.bundle_lock</code> and <code>.bundle_unlock</code>
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inside assembler macros (see <a href="Macro.html#Macro">Macro</a>), bundle-locked sequences may be
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nested. That is, a second <code>.bundle_lock</code> directive before the next
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<code>.bundle_unlock</code> directive has no effect except that it must be
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matched by another closing <code>.bundle_unlock</code> so that there is the
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same number of <code>.bundle_lock</code> and <code>.bundle_unlock</code> directives.
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