Intel® Architecture Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference

INSTRUCTION SET REFERENCE
CHAPTER 5
INSTRUCTION SET REFERENCE
Instructions that are described in this document follow the general documentation convention established in Intel
64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 2A and 2B. Additional notations and conventions
adopted in this document are listed in Section 5.1. Section 5.2 covers supplemental information that applies to a
specific subset of instructions.
5.1 INTERPRETING INSTRUCTION REFERENCE PAGES
This section describes the format of information contained in the instruction reference pages in this chapter. It
explains notational conventions and abbreviations used in these sections that are outside of those conventions
described in Section 3.1 of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 2A.
5.1.1 Instruction Format
The following is an example of the format used for each instruction description in this chapter. The table below
provides an example summary table:
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