← Home

CLS

Count leading sign bits

This instruction determines the number of leading bits of the source register that have the same value as the most significant bit of the register, and writes the result to the destination register. The result does not include the most significant bit of the source register.

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
sf101101011000000000101RnRd
Sopcode2op

32-bit encoding

(sf == 0)

CLS <Wd>, <Wn>

64-bit encoding

(sf == 1)

CLS <Xd>, <Xn>

Decode (all encodings)

let d : integer{} = UInt(Rd); let n : integer{} = UInt(Rn); let datasize : integer{} = 32 << UInt(sf);

Assembler Symbols

<Wd>

Is the 32-bit name of the general-purpose destination register, encoded in the "Rd" field.

<Wn>

Is the 32-bit name of the general-purpose source register, encoded in the "Rn" field.

<Xd>

Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose destination register, encoded in the "Rd" field.

<Xn>

Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose source register, encoded in the "Rn" field.

Operation

let operand1 : bits(datasize) = X{}(n); let result : integer = CountLeadingSignBits(operand1); X{datasize}(d) = result[datasize-1:0];

Operational information

This instruction is a data-independent-time instruction as described in About PSTATE.DIT.


Version 2026.06 — Copyright © 2010-2026 Arm Limited or its affiliates.

This site is provided as a community resource and is NOT affiliated with nor endorsed by Arm Limited.