Intel ITANIUM ARCHITECTURE - SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS MANUAL VOLUME 1 REV 2.3 Manual page 901

Chapter 2, "Introduction to Programming for the Intel
provides an overview of the application programming environment for the Itanium
architecture.
Chapter 3, "Memory Reference"
and data speculation.
Chapter 4, "Predication, Control Flow, and Instruction Stream"
features related to predication, control flow, and branch hints.
Chapter 5, "Software Pipelining and Loop Support"
optimizing loops through use of software pipelining.
Chapter 6, "Floating-point Applications"
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"
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Itanium
Chapter 2, "Intel
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"
state which is visible only to an operating system.
Chapter 4, "Addressing and Protection"
system for virtual to physical address translation, virtual aliasing, physical addressing,
and memory ordering.
Chapter 5, "Interruptions"
processor based on the Itanium architecture.
Chapter 6, "Register Stack Engine"
automatically saves and restores the stacked subset (GR32 – GR 127) of the general
register file.
Chapter 7, "Debugging and Performance Monitoring"
monitoring and debugging resources that are available in the Itanium architecture.
Chapter 8, "Interruption Vector Descriptions"
3:2
provides an overview of all volumes in the Intel
Architecture Software Developer's Manual.
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Itanium System Environment"
describes all interruptions that can be generated by a
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discusses features and optimizations related to control
provides a detailed discussion on
discusses current performance limitations in
introduces the environment
describes the Itanium architectural
defines the resources available to the operating
describes the architectural mechanism which
is an overview of the performance
lists all interruption vectors.
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Itanium Architecture"
describes optimization
Volume 3: About this Manual
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