In the x86 assembly programming language, MOVAPD is the name for a specific action performable by modern x86 processors with 2nd-generation Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE2). This action involves copying a pair of numbers to temporary space in the processor for use in other computations. MOVAPD is one of the fastest ways to accomplish this effect - it is faster than the comparable instruction MOVSD.
Specifically, MOVAPD causes a 16-byte-aligned packed-doubles source to be copied to an XMM register or a 16-byte memory region.
Usage.
The source operand can be either an XMM register ("xmm2") or a memory address ("m128").
The destination operand can be either an XMM register ("xmm1") or a memory address ("m128"). Note, however, that the source and destination operands cannot both be memory addresses.
Potential Exceptions.
If a memory address operand is not 16-byte-aligned, a general protection exception (#GP) will be raised. This can cause strange interoperability bugs when ordinary code calls an external code that was compiled with the assumption of a 16-byte-aligned stack frame boundary.
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See also.
x86 instruction listings