SXTW -- A64

Sign Extend Word sign-extends a word to the size of the register, and writes the result to the destination register.

is equivalent to

and is always the preferred disassembly.

<Xd>	Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose destination register, encoded in the "Rd" field.

<Wn>	Is the 32-bit name of the general-purpose source register, encoded in the "Rn" field.

The description of SBFM gives the operational pseudocode for this instruction.

If PSTATE.DIT is 1:

The execution time of this instruction is independent of:
- The values of the data supplied in any of its registers.
- The values of the NZCV flags.
The response of this instruction to asynchronous exceptions does not vary based on:
- The values of the data supplied in any of its registers.
- The values of the NZCV flags.

Internal version only: aarchmrs v2024-03_relA, pseudocode v2024-03_rel, sve v2024-03_rel ; Build timestamp: 2024-03-26T09:45