How to calculate division remainder in SPARC Assembly?

Question

Here is the pseudo code which computes division of two positive integers.
HR register saves remainder, and LR saves dividend. (and eventually saves root)

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Answer 1

I don't speak SPARC asm, but I do speak C. Here's a sample implementation of the algorithm for 16/8=8,8 division:

#include <stdio.h>

typedef unsigned char uint8;
typedef unsigned int uint;

int u8div(uint8* dividendh, uint8* dividendl, uint8 divisor)
{
  int i;

  if (*dividendh >= divisor)
    return 0; // overflow

  for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
  {
    if (*dividendh >= 0x80)
    {
      *dividendh = (*dividendh << 1) | (*dividendl >> (8 - 1));
      *dividendl <<= 1;

      *dividendh -= divisor;
      *dividendl |= 1;
    }
    else
    {
      *dividendh = (*dividendh << 1) | (*dividendl >> (8 - 1));
      *dividendl <<= 1;

      if (*dividendh >= divisor)
      {
        *dividendh -= divisor;
        *dividendl |= 1;
      }
    }
  }

  return 1;
}

int u8div2(uint8* dividendh, uint8* dividendl, uint8 divisor)
{
  uint dividend = (*dividendh << 8) | *dividendl;

  if (*dividendh >= divisor)
    return 0; // overflow

  *dividendl = dividend / divisor;
  *dividendh = dividend % divisor;

  return 1;
}

int main(void)
{
  uint dividendh, dividendl, divisor;

  for (dividendh = 0; dividendh <= 0xFF; dividendh++)
    for (dividendl = 0; dividendl <= 0xFF; dividendl++)
      for (divisor = 0; divisor <= 0xFF; divisor++)
      {
        uint8 divh = dividendh, divl = dividendl, divr = divisor;
        uint8 divh2 = dividendh, divl2 = dividendl;

        printf("0x%04X/0x%02X=", (divh << 8) | divl, divr);

        if (u8div(&divh, &divl, divr))
          printf("0x%02X.0x%02X", divl, divh);
        else
          printf("ovf");

        printf(" ");

        if (u8div2(&divh2, &divl2, divr))
          printf("0x%02X.0x%02X", divl2, divh2);
        else
          printf("ovf");

        if ((divl != divl2) || (divh != divh2))
          printf(" err"); // "err" will be printed if u8div() computes incorrect result

        printf("\n");
      }

  return 0;
}

Answer 2

Several implementation of the division algorithm (that also computes the remainder) can be found in appendix E of the SPARC architecture manual.

Newer version of the SPARC architecture include the division operators UDIV and SDIV.

A furhter implemenation can be found here.