Volume 3: Instruction Formats
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4.5.1.2
IP-Relative Counted Branch
4.5.1.3
IP-Relative Call
4.5.1.4
Indirect Branch
4.5.1.5
Indirect Call
4.5.2
Branch Predict/Nop/Hint
The branch predict, nop, and hint instructions are encoded in major opcodes 2 (Indirect
Predict/Nop/Hint) and 7 (IP-relative Predict). The indirect predict, nop, and hint
instructions in major opcode 2 use a 6-bit opcode extension field in bits 32:27 (x
6
).
summarizes these assignments.
40
37 36 35 34 33 32
13 12 11
9 8
6 5
0
s d wh
imm
20b
p
btype
0
4
1 1
2
20
1
3
3
6
Instruction
Operands Opcode
Extension
btype
p
wh
d
br.cloop.
bwh
.
ph
.
target
25
5
br.cexit.
bwh
.
ph
.
6
br.ctop.
bwh
.
ph
.
7
40
37 36 35 34 33 32
13 12 11
9 8
6 5
0
s d wh
imm
20b
p
b
1
qp
4
1 1
2
20
1
3
3
6
Instruction
Operands
Opcode
Extension
p
wh
d
br.call.
bwh
.
ph
.
dh
b
1
=
target
25
40
37 36 35 34 33 32
27 26
16 15
13 12 11
9 8
6 5
0
d wh
x
6
b
2
p
btype
qp
4
1 1
2
6
11
3
1
3
3
6
Instruction
Operands Opcode
Extension
x
6
btype
p
wh
d
br.cond.
bwh
.
ph
.
dh
b
2
20
0
br.ia.
bwh
.
ph
.
dh
1
br.ret.
bwh
.
ph
.
dh
21
4
40
37 36 35 34
32 31
16 15
13 12 11
9 8
6 5
0
d
wh
b
2
p
b
1
qp
4
1 1
3
16
3
1
3
3
6
Instruction
Operands
Opcode
Extension
p
wh
d
br.call.
bwh
.
ph
.
dh
b
1
=
b
2
Summary of Contents for ITANIUM ARCHITECTURE - SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS VOLUME 3 REV 2.3
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Page 33: ...1 22 Volume 1 Part 1 Introduction to the Intel Itanium Architecture ...
Page 57: ...1 46 Volume 1 Part 1 Execution Environment ...
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Page 149: ...1 138 Volume 1 Part 2 About the Optimization Guide ...
Page 191: ...1 180 Volume 1 Part 2 Predication Control Flow and Instruction Stream ...
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Page 264: ...2 16 Volume 2 Part 1 Intel Itanium System Environment ...
Page 380: ...2 132 Volume 2 Part 1 Interruptions ...
Page 398: ...2 150 Volume 2 Part 1 Register Stack Engine ...
Page 486: ...2 238 Volume 2 Part 1 IA 32 Interruption Vector Descriptions ...
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Page 754: ...2 506 Volume 2 Part 2 About the System Programmer s Guide ...
Page 796: ...2 548 Volume 2 Part 2 Interruptions and Serialization ...
Page 808: ...2 560 Volume 2 Part 2 Context Management ...
Page 842: ...2 594 Volume 2 Part 2 Floating point System Software ...
Page 850: ...2 602 Volume 2 Part 2 IA 32 Application Support ...
Page 862: ...2 614 Volume 2 Part 2 External Interrupt Architecture ...
Page 870: ...2 622 Volume 2 Part 2 Performance Monitoring Support ...
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Page 1295: ...3 396 Volume 3 Resource and Dependency Semantics ...
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Page 1494: ...4 192 Volume 4 Base IA 32 Instruction Reference FWAIT Wait See entry for WAIT ...
Page 1647: ...Volume 4 Base IA 32 Instruction Reference 4 345 ROL ROR Rotate See entry for RCL RCR ROL ROR ...
Page 1884: ...4 582 Volume 4 IA 32 SSE Instruction Reference ...
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