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<instructionsection id="LDURSB" title="LDURSB -- A64" type="instruction">
  <docvars>
    <docvar key="address-form" value="base-plus-offset"/>
    <docvar key="instr-class" value="general"/>
    <docvar key="isa" value="A64"/>
    <docvar key="mnemonic" value="LDURSB"/>
    <docvar key="offset-type" value="off9s_u"/>
  </docvars>
  <heading>LDURSB</heading>
  <desc>
    <brief>
      <para>Load register signed byte (unscaled)</para>
    </brief>
    <authored>
      <para>This instruction calculates an address from a base
register and an immediate offset, loads a signed byte from memory,
sign-extends it, and writes it
to a register. For information about addressing modes, see
<xref linkend="ARMARM_CHDIIIBB">Load/Store addressing modes</xref>.</para>
    </authored>
  </desc>
  <operationalnotes>
    <operationalnote>
      <operationalnote_content>
        <para>This instruction is a data-independent-time instruction as described in <xref linkend="ARMARM_BEICCDDAB3">About PSTATE.DIT</xref>.</para>
      </operationalnote_content>
    </operationalnote>
  </operationalnotes>
  <alias_list howmany="0"/>
  <classes>
    <iclass name="Unscaled offset" oneof="1" id="iclass_unscaled_offset" no_encodings="2" isa="A64">
      <docvars>
        <docvar key="address-form" value="base-plus-offset"/>
        <docvar key="instr-class" value="general"/>
        <docvar key="isa" value="A64"/>
        <docvar key="mnemonic" value="LDURSB"/>
        <docvar key="offset-type" value="off9s_u"/>
      </docvars>
      <iclassintro count="2"/>
      <regdiagram form="32" psname="A64.ldst.ldst_unscaled.LDURSB_32_ldst_unscaled" tworows="1">
        <box hibit="31" width="2" name="size" usename="1" settings="2" psbits="xx">
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="29" width="3" settings="3">
          <c>1</c>
          <c>1</c>
          <c>1</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="26" name="VR" usename="1" settings="1" psbits="x">
          <c>0</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="25" width="2" settings="2">
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="23" width="2" name="opc" usename="1" settings="1" psbits="xx">
          <c>1</c>
          <c>x</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="21" width="1" settings="1">
          <c>0</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="20" width="9" name="imm9" usename="1">
          <c colspan="9"/>
        </box>
        <box hibit="11" width="2" settings="2">
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="9" width="5" name="Rn" usename="1">
          <c colspan="5"/>
        </box>
        <box hibit="4" width="5" name="Rt" usename="1">
          <c colspan="5"/>
        </box>
      </regdiagram>
      <encoding name="LDURSB_32_ldst_unscaled" oneofinclass="2" oneof="2" label="32-bit" bitdiffs="opc == 11">
        <docvars>
          <docvar key="address-form" value="base-plus-offset"/>
          <docvar key="instr-class" value="general"/>
          <docvar key="isa" value="A64"/>
          <docvar key="offset-type" value="off9s_u"/>
          <docvar key="datatype" value="32"/>
          <docvar key="mnemonic" value="LDURSB"/>
        </docvars>
        <box hibit="23" width="2" name="opc">
          <c/>
          <c>1</c>
        </box>
        <asmtemplate><text>LDURSB  </text><a hover="Is the 32-bit name of the general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the &quot;Rt&quot; field." link="WtOrWZR__4">&lt;Wt&gt;</a><text>, [</text><a hover="Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose base register or stack pointer, encoded in the &quot;Rn&quot; field." link="XnSP_option">&lt;Xn|SP&gt;</a><text>{, #</text><a hover="Is the optional signed immediate byte offset, in the range -256 to 255, defaulting to 0 and encoded in the &quot;imm9&quot; field." link="simm">&lt;simm&gt;</a><text>}]</text></asmtemplate>
      </encoding>
      <encoding name="LDURSB_64_ldst_unscaled" oneofinclass="2" oneof="2" label="64-bit" bitdiffs="opc == 10">
        <docvars>
          <docvar key="isa" value="A64"/>
          <docvar key="address-form" value="base-plus-offset"/>
          <docvar key="datatype" value="64"/>
          <docvar key="instr-class" value="general"/>
          <docvar key="offset-type" value="off9s_u"/>
          <docvar key="mnemonic" value="LDURSB"/>
        </docvars>
        <box hibit="23" width="2" name="opc">
          <c/>
          <c>0</c>
        </box>
        <asmtemplate><text>LDURSB  </text><a hover="Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the &quot;Rt&quot; field." link="XtOrXZR__11">&lt;Xt&gt;</a><text>, [</text><a hover="Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose base register or stack pointer, encoded in the &quot;Rn&quot; field." link="XnSP_option">&lt;Xn|SP&gt;</a><text>{, #</text><a hover="Is the optional signed immediate byte offset, in the range -256 to 255, defaulting to 0 and encoded in the &quot;imm9&quot; field." link="simm">&lt;simm&gt;</a><text>}]</text></asmtemplate>
      </encoding>
      <ps_section howmany="1">
        <ps name="A64.ldst.ldst_unscaled.LDURSB_32_ldst_unscaled" sections="1" secttype="noheading">
          <pstext mayhavelinks="1" section="Decode" rep_section="decode">let offset : bits(64) = SignExtend{}(imm9);</pstext></ps>
      </ps_section>
    </iclass>
  </classes>
  <explanations scope="all">
    <explanation enclist="LDURSB_32_ldst_unscaled" symboldefcount="1">
      <symbol link="WtOrWZR__4">&lt;Wt&gt;</symbol>
      <account encodedin="Rt">
        <intro>
          <para>Is the 32-bit name of the general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt" field.</para>
        </intro>
      </account>
    </explanation>
    <explanation enclist="LDURSB_32_ldst_unscaled, LDURSB_64_ldst_unscaled" symboldefcount="1">
      <symbol link="XnSP_option">&lt;Xn|SP&gt;</symbol>
      <account encodedin="Rn">
        <intro>
          <para>Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose base register or stack pointer, encoded in the "Rn" field.</para>
        </intro>
      </account>
    </explanation>
    <explanation enclist="LDURSB_32_ldst_unscaled, LDURSB_64_ldst_unscaled" symboldefcount="1">
      <symbol link="simm">&lt;simm&gt;</symbol>
      <account encodedin="imm9">
        <intro>
          <para>Is the optional signed immediate byte offset, in the range -256 to 255, defaulting to 0 and encoded in the "imm9" field.</para>
        </intro>
      </account>
    </explanation>
    <explanation enclist="LDURSB_64_ldst_unscaled" symboldefcount="1">
      <symbol link="XtOrXZR__11">&lt;Xt&gt;</symbol>
      <account encodedin="Rt">
        <intro>
          <para>Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt" field.</para>
        </intro>
      </account>
    </explanation>
  </explanations>
  <ps_section howmany="1">
    <ps name="A64.ldst.ldst_unscaled.LDURSB_32_ldst_unscaled" sections="1" secttype="Shared Decode">
      <pstext mayhavelinks="1" section="Postdecode" rep_section="postdecode">let n : integer = UInt(Rn);
let t : integer = UInt(Rt);
let datasize : integer{} = 8;
let regsize : integer{} = 64 &gt;&gt; UInt(opc[0]);
let nontemporal : boolean = FALSE;
let tagchecked : boolean = n != 31;</pstext></ps>
  </ps_section>
  <ps_section howmany="1">
    <ps name="A64.ldst.ldst_unscaled.LDURSB_32_ldst_unscaled" sections="1" secttype="Operation">
      <pstext mayhavelinks="1" section="Execute" rep_section="execute">var address : bits(64);

let privileged : boolean = PSTATE.EL != EL0;
let accdesc : AccessDescriptor = CreateAccDescGPR(MemOp_LOAD, nontemporal, privileged,
                                                  tagchecked, t);

if n == 31 then
    CheckSPAlignment();
    address = SP{64}();
else
    address = X{64}(n);
end;

address = AddressAdd(address, offset, accdesc);

let data : bits(datasize) = Mem{datasize}(address, accdesc);
X{regsize}(t) = SignExtend{regsize}(data);</pstext></ps>
  </ps_section>
  <timestamp>2026-03-12 12:23:09</timestamp>
  <commit_id>2025-09_rel_asl1</commit_id>
</instructionsection>
