This intrinsic inserts a QADD8 instruction into the instruction stream generated by the compiler. It enables you to perform four 8-bit integer additions, saturating the results to the 8-bit signed integer range -2⁷ ≤ x ≤ 2⁷ - 1.

unsigned int __qadd8(unsigned int val1, unsigned int val2)

where:

The __qadd8 intrinsic returns:

The returned results are saturated to the 8-bit signed integer range -2⁷ ≤ x ≤ 2⁷ - 1.

Example:

unsigned int add_bytes(unsigned int val1, unsigned int val2)
{
  unsigned int res;

    res = __qadd8(val1,val2); /* res[7:0] = val1[7:0] + val2[7:0]
                                 res[15:8] = val1[15:8] + val2[15:8]
                                 res[23:16] = val1[23:16] + val2[23:16]
                                 res[31:24] = val1[31:24] + val2[31:24]
                               */
    return res;
}