The x32 ABI - A New Software Convention for Performance on Intel 64 Processors
The x32 ABI - A New Software Convention for Performance on Intel 64 Processors
Intel introduced the Intel 64 architecture with the Pentium 4F processor in 2004. Besides more virtual memory through 64-bit addresses, Intel64 programs had several other architectural advantages such as larger and more numerous general purpose registers, a register dedicated to the instruction pointer, and more. Many IA-32 programs in the embedded world would benefit from using these Intel64 features but may not require the use of a 64-bit address size due to its memory footprint overhead. A...
Published By: Intel Press - Monday, 11 June, 2012
