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Application Programming Model
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This section describes the architectural functionality from the perspective of the
application programmer. Itanium instructions are grouped into related functions and an
overview of their behavior is given. Unless otherwise noted, all immediates are sign
extended to 64 bits before use. The floating-point programming model is described
separately in
Chapter 5, “Floating-point Programming Model” in Volume 1
. Refer to
Volume 3: Intel® Itanium® Instruction Set Reference
for detailed information on
Itanium instructions.
The main features of the programming model covered here are:
• General Register Stack
• Integer Computation Instructions
• Compare Instructions and Predication
• Memory Access Instructions and Speculation
• Branch Instructions and Branch Prediction
• Multimedia Instructions
• Register File Transfer Instructions
• Character Strings and Population Count
• Privilege Level Transfer
4.1
Register Stack
As described in
“General Registers” on page 1:25
, the general register file is divided
into static and stacked subsets. The static subset is visible to all procedures and
consists of the 32 registers from GR 0 through GR 31. The stacked subset is local to
each procedure and may vary in size from zero to 96 registers beginning at GR 32. The
register stack mechanism is implemented by renaming register addresses as a
side-effect of procedure calls and returns. The implementation of this rename
mechanism is not otherwise visible to application programs. The register stack is
disabled during IA-32 instruction set execution.
The static subset must be saved and restored at procedure boundaries according to
software convention. The stacked subset is automatically saved and restored by the
Register Stack Engine (RSE) without explicit software intervention (for details on the
RSE see
Chapter 6, “Register Stack Engine”
). All other register files are
visible to all procedures and must be saved/restored by software according to software
convention.
4.1.1
Register Stack Operation
The registers in the stacked subset visible to a given procedure are called a register
stack frame. The frame is further partitioned into two variable-size areas: the local area
and the output area. Immediately after a call, the size of the local area of the newly
activated frame is zero and the size of the output area is equal to the size of the caller’s
output area and overlays the caller’s output area.
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