Intel 253666-024US Manuel D’Utilisation

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INSTRUCTION SET REFERENCE, A-M

DIVSS—Divide Scalar Single-Precision Floating-Point Values

DIVSS—Divide Scalar Single-Precision Floating-Point Values

Description

Divides the low single-precision floating-point value in the destination operand (first 
operand) by the low single-precision floating-point value in the source operand 
(second operand), and stores the single-precision floating-point result in the destina-
tion operand. The source operand can be an XMM register or a 32-bit memory loca-
tion. The destination operand is an XMM register. The three high-order doublewords 
of the destination operand remain unchanged. See Chapter 10 in the Intel® 64 and 
IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 1, for an overview of a 
scalar single-precision floating-point operation.
In 64-bit mode, use of the REX.R prefix permits this instruction to access additional 
registers (XMM8-XMM15).

Operation

DEST[31:0]← DEST[31:0] / SRC[31:0];

(* DEST[127:32] unchanged *)

Intel C/C++ Compiler Intrinsic Equivalent

DIVSS

__m128 _mm_div_ss(__m128 a, __m128 b)

SIMD Floating-Point Exceptions

Overflow, Underflow, Invalid, Divide-by-Zero, Precision, Denormal.

Protected Mode Exceptions

#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.

#NM

If CR0.TS[bit 3] = 1. 

#XM 

If an unmasked SIMD floating-point exception and CR4.OSXM-

MEXCPT[bit 10] = 1. 

#UD 

If an unmasked SIMD floating-point exception and CR4.OSXM-

MEXCPT[bit 10] = 0.

Opcode

Instruction

64-Bit 

Mode

Compat/

Leg 

Mode

Description

F3 0F 5E /r

DIVSS xmm1, 

Valid

Valid

Divide low single-precision floating-

point value in xmm1 by low single-

precision floating-point value in