SQRTSD—Compute Square Root of Scalar Double-Precision Floating-Point Value

Opcode*/Instruction Op/En 64/32 bit Mode Support CPUID Feature Flag Description

F2 0F 51 /r

SQRTSD xmm1, xmm2/m64

RM V/V SSE2 Computes square root of the low double-precision floating-point value in xmm2/m64 and stores the results in xmm1.

VEX.NDS.LIG.F2.0F.WIG 51/r

VSQRTSD xmm1,xmm2, xmm3/m64

RVM V/V AVX Computes square root of the low double-precision floating point value in xmm3/m64 and stores the results in xmm2. Also, upper double precision floating-point value (bits[127:64]) from xmm2 are copied to xmm1[127:64].

Instruction Operand Encoding

Op/En Operand 1 Operand 2 Operand 3 Operand 4
RM ModRM:reg (w) ModRM:r/m (r) NA NA
RVM ModRM:reg (w) VEX.vvvv (r) ModRM:r/m (r) NA

Description

Computes the square root of the low double-precision floating-point value in the source operand (second operand) and stores the double-precision floating-point result in the destination operand. The source operand can be an XMM register or a 64-bit memory location. The destination operand is an XMM register. The high quadword of the desti-nation operand remains unchanged. See Figure 11-4 in the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Devel-oper’s Manual, Volume 1, for an illustration of a scalar double-precision floating-point operation.

In 64-bit mode, using a REX prefix in the form of REX.R permits this instruction to access additional registers (XMM8-XMM15).

128-bit Legacy SSE version: The first source operand and the destination operand are the same. Bits (VLMAX-1:64) of the corresponding YMM destination register remain unchanged.

VEX.128 encoded version: Bits (VLMAX-1:128) of the destination YMM register are zeroed.

Operation

SQRTSD (128-bit Legacy SSE version)

DEST[63:0] ← SQRT(SRC[63:0])
DEST[VLMAX-1:64] (Unmodified)

VSQRTSD (VEX.128 encoded version)

DEST[63:0] ← SQRT(SRC2[63:0])
DEST[127:64] ← SRC1[127:64]
DEST[VLMAX-1:128] ← 0

Intel C/C++ Compiler Intrinsic Equivalent

SQRTSD:

__m128d _mm_sqrt_sd (m128d a, m128d b)

SIMD Floating-Point Exceptions

Invalid, Precision, Denormal.

Other Exceptions

See Exceptions Type 3.