>>>>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:08:29 -0700, Richard Harke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Richard> Well, I learned something. Now I feel I should be annoyed Richard> that Markstein did not include the directive in his example. Richard> Of the three books I have been studying, Richard> "IA-64 and Elementary Functions", Richard> "itanium architecture for programmers" and Richard> "Programming Itanium-based Systems", Richard> only in the third does it appear at all, then in an example Richard> in the last chapter. But I could not find an explanation Richard> in the adjoining text. And it is not in the index. It is a fairly esoteric topic and the annotations are rarely needed (the low-level kernel code is quite special in this regard), so don't get too upset with the authors! (I don't talk about them in my book either---there simply was no obvious need/opportunity to introduce them). The directives are explained in the Itanium assembler manual from Intel. http://www.intel.com/software/products/opensource/tools1/tol_whte2.htm Chapter 7 is the one of interest here. --david
