| Bit shift operations: example | ||||||||||||
| hex | dec. | |||||||||||
| $r2 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0010 | 0001 | 0000 | 210 | 528 | ||
| $r3 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 1000 | 0100 | 0000 | 840 | 2112 | ||
| $r4 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 1000 | 8 | 8 | ||
| $r5 | ||||||||||||
| $r8 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0100 | 0010 | 42 | 66 | ||
| $r9 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0101 | 5 | 5 | ||
| example: | ||||||||||||
| addi $8,$0,0x42 # put two's comp. hex 42 into register 8 | ||||||||||||
| addi $9,$0,5 # put two's comp. 5 into register 9 | ||||||||||||
| sll $2,$8,3 # shift bits of reg 8 left by 3, result in reg 2 | ||||||||||||
| sllv $3,$8,$9 # shift bits of reg 8 left by amount in reg 9, | ||||||||||||
| # result in reg 3 | ||||||||||||
| srl $4,$8,3 # shift bits of reg 8 right by 3, result in reg 4 | ||||||||||||
| srlv $5,$8,$9 # shift bits of reg 8 right by amount in reg 9, | ||||||||||||
| # result in reg 5 | ||||||||||||