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About this Manual

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as explicit parallelism, predication, speculation and more. The architecture is designed
to be highly scalable to fill the ever increasing performance requirements of various
server and workstation market segments. The Itanium architecture features a
revolutionary 64-bit instruction set architecture (ISA), which applies a new processor
architecture technology called EPIC, or Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing. A key
feature of the Itanium architecture is IA-32 instruction set compatibility.
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comprehensive description of the programming environment, resources, and instruction
set visible to both the application and system programmer. In addition, it also describes
how programmers can take advantage of the features of the Itanium architecture to
help them optimize code.
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Overview of Volume 1: Application Architecture

This volume defines the Itanium application architecture, including application level
resources, programming environment, and the IA-32 application interface. This volume
also describes optimization techniques used to generate high performance software.
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Part 1: Application Architecture Guide

Chapter 1, "About this Manual"
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Itanium
Software Developer's Manual
Chapter 2, "Introduction to the Intel
the architecture.
Chapter 3, "Execution Environment"
applications and the memory organization models.
Chapter 4, "Application Programming Model"
Itanium application instructions (grouped into related functions).
Chapter 5, "Floating-point Programming Model"
architecture (including integer multiply).
Chapter 6, "IA-32 Application Execution Model in an Intel
Environment"
Environment from the perspective of an application programmer.
1.1.2 Part 2: Optimization Guide for the Intel
Architecture
Chapter 1, "About the Optimization Guide"
Volume 1, Part 1:About this Manual
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Itanium architecture is a unique combination of innovative features such
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Itanium Architecture Software Developer's Manual provides a
Architecture Software Developer's Manual.Intel
describes the operation of IA-32 instructions within the Itanium System
provides an overview of all volumes in the Intel
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Itanium Architecture"
describes the Itanium register set used by
gives an overview of the behavior of
describes the Itanium floating-point
gives an overview of the optimization guide.
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provides an overview of
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