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 - <h4 class="subsubsection">9.41.3.3 Instruction Operands</h4>
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 - <p>Instruction operands can be grouped into three classes, operands located
 - in registers, immediate operands, and operands in storage.
 - </p>
 - <p>A register operand can be located in general, floating-point, access,
 - or control register. The register is identified by a four-bit field.
 - The field containing the register operand is called the R field.
 - </p>
 - <p>Immediate operands are contained within the instruction and can have
 - 8, 16 or 32 bits. The field containing the immediate operand is called
 - the I field. Dependent on the instruction the I field is either signed
 - or unsigned.
 - </p>
 - <p>A storage operand consists of an address and a length. The address of a
 - storage operands can be specified in any of these ways:
 - </p>
 - <ul>
 - <li> The content of a single general R
 - </li><li> The sum of the content of a general register called the base
 - register B plus the content of a displacement field D
 - </li><li> The sum of the contents of two general registers called the
 - index register X and the base register B plus the content of a
 - displacement field
 - </li><li> The sum of the current instruction address and a 32-bit signed
 - immediate field multiplied by two.
 - </li></ul>
 - 
 - <p>The length of a storage operand can be:
 - </p>
 - <ul>
 - <li> Implied by the instruction
 - </li><li> Specified by a bitmask
 - </li><li> Specified by a four-bit or eight-bit length field L
 - </li><li> Specified by the content of a general register
 - </li></ul>
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 - <p>The notation for storage operand addresses formed from multiple fields is
 - as follows:
 - </p>
 - <dl compact="compact">
 - <dt><code>Dn(Bn)</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>the address for operand number n is formed from the content of general
 - register Bn called the base register and the displacement field Dn.
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>Dn(Xn,Bn)</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>the address for operand number n is formed from the content of general
 - register Xn called the index register, general register Bn called the
 - base register and the displacement field Dn.
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>Dn(Ln,Bn)</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>the address for operand number n is formed from the content of general
 - register Bn called the base register and the displacement field Dn.
 - The length of the operand n is specified by the field Ln.
 - </p></dd>
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 - <p>The base registers Bn and the index registers Xn of a storage operand can
 - be skipped. If Bn and Xn are skipped, a zero will be stored to the operand
 - field. The notation changes as follows:
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 - <thead><tr><th width="30%"><pre class="display">full notation</pre></th><th width="30%"><pre class="display">short notation</pre></th></tr></thead>
 - <tr><td width="30%"><pre class="display">Dn(0,Bn)</pre></td><td width="30%"><pre class="display">Dn(Bn)</pre></td></tr>
 - <tr><td width="30%"><pre class="display">Dn(0,0)</pre></td><td width="30%"><pre class="display">Dn</pre></td></tr>
 - <tr><td width="30%"><pre class="display">Dn(0)</pre></td><td width="30%"><pre class="display">Dn</pre></td></tr>
 - <tr><td width="30%"><pre class="display">Dn(Ln,0)</pre></td><td width="30%"><pre class="display">Dn(Ln)</pre></td></tr>
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