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

Chapter 5

A1:	Among other factors, you might consider how many clock cycles are needed and how any two-step schemes are protected in the case of CPU interrupts.
A3:	How, for instance, is branch range determined? About how many bits would be required for a subcode to encode both integer and floating-point relations?
A4:	Yes.
A5:	Not equal is not equal (i.e., to zero), independent of interpretation of the bit pattern.
A6:	How many predicate registers are available (see Appendix D)? Could an inner compare instruction “unconditionally” modify the same predicate register that predicated that instruction itself?
A7:	It falls through only on the final traversal.
A8:	Infinite loop.
A9:	Consider the program in Figure 5-1 and substitute a subtract operation for ...