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| author | Hugues de Lassus <huguesdelassus@gmail.com> | 2023-09-12 02:53:27 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-09-12 02:53:27 -0700 |
| commit | 38b04abd407709873b0bf2298405b92430e4076f (patch) | |
| tree | 5de86793242e9fe285a9a0e33a73610807b8676c /src/m-st-ext.adoc | |
| parent | d5bf62100abb50f98cb97d9fe0fa3bf1795c4c6e (diff) | |
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Clarify REM wording (#1123)
* Clarify REM wording
* Simplify: overflow happens only for signed division
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diff --git a/src/m-st-ext.adoc b/src/m-st-ext.adoc index c36ea65..94bbd4b 100644 --- a/src/m-st-ext.adoc +++ b/src/m-st-ext.adoc @@ -61,11 +61,12 @@ include::images/wavedrom/division-op.adoc[] DIV and DIVU perform an XLEN bits by XLEN bits signed and unsigned integer division of _rs1_ by _rs2_, rounding towards zero. REM and REMU provide the remainder of the corresponding division operation. For REM, -the sign of the result equals the sign of the dividend. +the sign of a nonzero result equals the sign of the dividend. [NOTE] ==== -For both signed and unsigned division, it holds that +For both signed and unsigned division, except in the case of overflow, it holds +that latexmath:[$\textrm{dividend} = \textrm{divisor} \times \textrm{quotient} + \textrm{remainder}$]. ==== |