le: Wasm text instruction

The le instruction, short for less or equal, checks if a floating point number is less than or equal to another floating point number.

Integer types have separate less than or equal to signed (le_s) and unsigned (le_u) instructions.

Try it

(module
  (import "env" "log_bool" (func $log_bool (param i32)))
  (func $main
    ;; load 10.5 and 3.5 onto the stack
    f32.const 10.5
    f32.const 3.5

    f32.le ;; check if 10.5 is less than or equal to 3.5
    call $log_bool ;; log the result
  )
  (start $main)
)
const url = "{%wasm-url%}";

function log_bool(value) {
  console.log(Boolean(value));
  // Expected output: false
}

await WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(fetch(url), {
  env: { log_bool },
});

Syntax

value_type.le
value_type

The type of value the instruction is being run on. The following types support le:

  • f32
  • f64
  • v128 interpretations:
    • f32x4
    • f64x2
le

The le instruction. Must always be included after the value_type and a period (.).

Type

[input1, input2] -> [output]
input1

The first input value.

input2

The second input value.

output

The output value, which will be an integer type.

For a non-SIMD le, the inputs will be basic numeric values such as 3.0 or 3.5. If the first input is less than or equal to the second input, 1 will be pushed on to the stack as an output, otherwise 0 will be pushed on to the stack.

For a SIMD le, the inputs will be v128 value interpretations, for example f32x4 2.0 30 86.9 120. Each lane of the output pushed to the stack is a 1 or 0 indicating whether the corresponding lane of the first input value is less than or equal to the corresponding lane of the second input value.

Binary encoding

Instruction Binary format Example text => binary
f32.le 0x5f f32.le => 0x5f
f64.le 0x65 f64.le => 0x65
f32x4.le 0xfd 69:u32 f32x4.le => 0xfd 0x45
f64x2.le 0xfd 75:u32 f64x2.le => 0xfd 0x4b

Examples

SIMD le example

In this example, we demonstrate using le to test whether one SIMD lane value is less than or equal to the same lane value in another SIMD value.

JavaScript

In our script, we grab a reference to a <p> element that we will output our result to, then define an object for import into Wasm containing a single function that writes a value to the output <p>. We then compile and instantiate our Wasm module using the WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming() method, importing the object in the process.

js
const outputElem = document.querySelector("p");

const obj = {
  output(val) {
    outputElem.textContent += val;
  },
};

WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(fetch("{%wasm-url%}"), {
  obj,
});

Wasm

In our Wasm module, we first import the JavaScript output() function, making sure to declare that it has an i32 parameter. We then declare two SIMD f32x4 values, then check whether the first one's lane values are less than or equal to the second using f32x4.le. Finally we extract the value stored in lane 3 of the output value using the extract_lane instruction, and output it to the DOM by calling the imported output() function.

wat
(module
  ;; Import output function
  (import "obj" "output" (func $output (param i32)))

  (func $main
    ;; load two SIMD values onto the stack
    v128.const f32x4 20 12 15 102
    v128.const f32x4 20 12 15 100

    ;; check whether the first value is less than or equal to the second
    f32x4.le
    i32x4.extract_lane 3 ;; Extract a value from the result

    call $output
  )

  (start $main)
)

Result

The output is as follows:

The result is 0 because the value stored in lane 3 of the first input value is not less than or equal to the value stored in lane 3 of the second input value.

See also