i) The result of an operation that exceeds the range of a data-typesaturates to the
maximum value of the range.
ii) A result that is less than the range of a data-type saturates to the minimum value of
the range.
Table 17.2 shows these saturation values.
Note 1 Just because MMX instructions use 64 bits, Pentium does not become a 64-bit
processor. It is still an IA-32 processor with all its general purpose processors being 32
bits long. Figure 17.3 shows the MMX programming environment of IA-32 processors
with MMX added to it.
17.4 | Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE)
The streaming SIMD extensions (SSE) ...
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