Notational Conventions - Intel ARCHITECTURE IA-32 Reference Manual

IA-32 Intel® Architecture Optimization

Notational Conventions

This manual uses the following conventions:
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Indicates an element of syntax, a reserved
word, a keyword, a filename, instruction,
computer output, or part of a program
example. The text appears in lowercase
unless uppercase is significant.
Indicates a value, for example,
or a variable, for example,
names through
MMO
indicates lowercase letter L in examples.
l
is the number 1 in examples.
uppercase O in examples.
examples.
Indicates a placeholder for an identifier, an
expression, a string, a symbol, or a value.
Substitute one of these items for the
placeholder.
Indicate that a few lines of the code are
omitted.
Indicates a hypertext link.
,
TRUE
, , or register
A B
.
MM7
is the
O
is the number 0 in
0
,
CONST1
1