SPARC Assembly/Multiplication and Division

Looking through the lists of instructions, it becomes clear that multiplication and division operations are not provided in SPARC: at least not in a form that most programmers are familiar with. This page is going to discuss the algorithms used to perform multiplication and division operations in SPARC

Example

To multiply %l3 and %l4 and store in %l5:

mov	%l3	%o0	! First operand
mov	%l4	%o1	! Second operand
call	.mul		! Result stored in %o0
			! To divide %l3 by %l4, use .div
			! To find the modulus, use .rem
nop			! Delay slot
mov	%o0	%l5	! Copy result to %l5

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