Absolute Value Intrinsics

These Intel® Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (Intel® SSSE3) intrinsics are used to compute absolute values. The prototypes for these intrinsics are in tmmintrin.h. You can also use the ia32intrin.h header file for these intrinsics.

extern __m128i _mm_abs_epi8 (__m128i a);

Compute absolute value of signed bytes.

Interpreting a and r as arrays of signed 8-bit integers:

for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
   r[i] = abs(a[i]);
}

extern __m128i _mm_abs_epi16 (__m128i a);

Compute absolute value of signed words.

Interpreting a and r as arrays of signed 16-bit integers:

for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
   r[i] = abs(a[i]);
}

extern __m128i _mm_abs_epi32 (__m128i a);

Compute absolute value of signed dwords.

Interpreting a and r as arrays of signed 32-bit integers:

for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
   r[i] = abs(a[i]);
}

extern __m64 _mm_abs_pi8 (__m64 a);

Compute absolute value of signed bytes.

Interpreting a and r as arrays of signed 8-bit integers:

for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
   r[i] = abs(a[i]);
}

extern __m64 _mm_abs_pi16 (__m64 a);

Compute absolute value of signed words.

Interpreting a and r as arrays of signed 16-bit integers:

for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
   r[i] = abs(a[i]);
}

extern __m64 _mm_abs_pi32 (__m64 a);

Compute absolute value of signed dwords.

Interpreting a and r as arrays of signed 32-bit integers:

for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
   r[i] = abs(a[i]);
}

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