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

by James S. Evans - Lawrence University, Gregory L. Trimper - viika
April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 13m
English
Pearson
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11.2. Compiling a Simple Program

Comparing the output from several compilers for high-level languages can usefully reveal both similarities and differences. The extremely rudimentary programs shown in Figure 11-1 are written in a fashion as parallel from one language to another as the syntax rules of FORTRAN and C will allow. We knowingly ignore the initialization issue with regard to array B, since filling that array's elements with dummy values would require more lines in the program without amplifying the main points we want to discuss.

Each program contains floating-point variables and constants in addition to integer quantities. In order to understand this current material, if you skipped over Chapter 8, you need to know that Itanium instructions ...

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