Intel® C++ Compiler Classic Developer Guide and Reference

ID 767249
Date 7/13/2023
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Document Table of Contents

_mm_i64gather_ps, _mm256_i64gather_ps

Gathers 2/4 packed single-precision floating point values from memory referenced by the given base address, qword indices and scale. The corresponding Intel® AVX2 instruction is VGATHERQPS.

Syntax

extern __m128 _mm_mask_i64gather_ps(float const * base, __m128i vindex, const int scale);

extern __m128 _mm256_mask_i64gather_ps(float const * base, __m256i vindex, const int scale);

Arguments

base

the base address used to reference the loaded FP elements.

vindex

the vector of qword indices used to reference the loaded FP elements.

scale

The compilation time literal constant, which is used as the vector indices scale to address the loaded elements. Possible values are one of the following: 1, 2, 4, 8.

Description

The intrinsics load 2/4 packed single-precision floating-point values from memory using qword indices and updates the destination operand. The intrinsic _mm_i64gather_ps() also sets the upper 64-bits of the result to '0'.

Below is the pseudo-code for the intrinsics:

_mm_i64gather_ps():

result[31:0] = mem[base+vindex[63:0]*scale];
result[63:32] = mem[base+vindex[127:64]*scale];
result[127:64] = 0;

_mm256_i64gather_ps():

result[31:0] = mem[base+vindex[63:0]*scale];
result[63:32] = mem[base+vindex[127:64]*scale];
result[95:64] = mem[base+vindex[191:128]*scale];
result[127:96] = mem[base+vindex[255:192]*scale];

Returns

A 128/256-bit vector with unconditionally gathered single-precision FP values.