Itanium Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC P

This book is both a professional reference and a textbook based on a new 64-bit Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architectural design, the Itanium processor developed by Intel in partnership with Hewlett-Packard. The Itanium processor represents a thoroughly new design, supports open-source as well as proprietary 64-bit operating systems, and has been selected by several companies as the successor to their present RISC processors.

Table of Contents

List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Trademarks.
1. Architecture and Implementation.
2. Computer Structures and Data Representations.
3. The Program Assembler and Debugger.
4. Itanium Instruction Formats and Addressing.
5. Comparison, Branches, and Predication.
6. Logical Operations, Bit-Shifts, and Bytes.
7. Subroutines, Procedures, and Functions.
8. Floating-Point Operations.
9. Input and Output of Text.
10. Performance Considerations.
11. Looking at Output from Compilers.
12. Parallel Operations.
13. Variations Among Implementations.
Appendix A. Command-Line Environments.
Appendix B. Suggested System Resources.
Appendix C. Itanium Instruction Set.
Appendix D. Itanium Registers and Their Uses.
Appendix E. Conditional Assembly and Macros (GCC Assembler).
Appendix F. Inline Assembly (HP-UX C Compiler). References.
Bibliography.
Answers and Hints for Selected Exercises.
About the Authors.
Index.