4:2
Volume 4: About this Manual
Chapter 2, “Introduction to Programming for the Intel
provides an overview of the application programming environment for the Itanium
architecture.
discusses features and optimizations related to control
and data speculation.
Chapter 4, “Predication, Control Flow, and Instruction Stream”
describes optimization
features related to predication, control flow, and branch hints.
Chapter 5, “Software Pipelining and Loop Support”
provides a detailed discussion on
optimizing loops through use of software pipelining.
Chapter 6, “Floating-point Applications”
discusses current performance limitations in
floating-point applications and features that address these limitations.
1.2
Overview of Volume 2: System Architecture
This volume defines the Itanium system architecture, including system level resources
and programming state, interrupt model, and processor firmware interface. This
volume also provides a useful system programmer's guide for writing high performance
system software.
1.2.1
Part 1: System Architecture Guide
Chapter 1, “About this Manual”
provides an overview of all volumes in the
Intel
®
Itanium
®
Architecture Software Developer’s Manual
.
introduces the environment
designed to support execution of Itanium architecture-based operating systems running
IA-32 or Itanium architecture-based applications.
Chapter 3, “System State and Programming Model”
describes the Itanium architectural
state which is visible only to an operating system.
Chapter 4, “Addressing and Protection”
defines the resources available to the operating
system for virtual to physical address translation, virtual aliasing, physical addressing,
and memory ordering.
describes all interruptions that can be generated by a
processor based on the Itanium architecture.
Chapter 6, “Register Stack Engine”
describes the architectural mechanism which
automatically saves and restores the stacked subset (GR32
–
GR 127) of the general
register file.
Chapter 7, “Debugging and Performance Monitoring”
is an overview of the performance
monitoring and debugging resources that are available in the Itanium architecture.
Summary of Contents for ITANIUM ARCHITECTURE - SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS VOLUME 3 REV 2.3
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