EXT Instruction
The instruction EXT (Sign EXTend) makes a sign extension, byte to a word or a word to a longword. If you extend a byte to a word, bit 7 is copied to bit 15-8. If you extend a word to a longword, bit 15 is copied to bit 31-16.
ADDRESS METHODS: Dn
DATA LENGTH: Word, Longword
FLAGS: |
X - U |
N - S |
Z - S |
C - 0 |
V - 0 |
SYNTAX: EXT Dn
EXAMPLE CODE:
EXT.L D0 if D0 contained 0000FFF5, it
would change D0 to FFFFFFF5