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26568—Rev. 3.02—August 2002<br />

<strong>AMD</strong> <strong>64</strong>-<strong>Bit</strong> <strong>Technology</strong><br />

Preface<br />

About This Book<br />

This book is part of a multivolume work entitled the <strong>AMD</strong><br />

x86-<strong>64</strong> Architecture Programmer’s Manual. This table lists each<br />

volume and its order number.<br />

Title<br />

Order No.<br />

Volume 1, Application Programming 24592<br />

Volume 2, System Programming 24593<br />

Volume 3, General-Purpose and System Instructions 24594<br />

Volume 4, 128-<strong>Bit</strong> Media Instructions 26568<br />

Volume 5, <strong>64</strong>-<strong>Bit</strong> Media and x87 Floating-Point Instructions 26569<br />

Audience<br />

This volume (Volume 4) is intended for all programmers writing<br />

application or system software for processors that implement<br />

the x86-<strong>64</strong> architecture.<br />

Organization<br />

Volumes 3, 4, and 5 describe the x86-<strong>64</strong> architecture’s<br />

instruction set in detail. Together, they cover each instruction’s<br />

mnemonic syntax, opcodes, functions, affected flags, and<br />

possible exceptions.<br />

The x86-<strong>64</strong> instruction set is divided into five subsets:<br />

„ General-purpose instructions<br />

„ System instructions<br />

„ 128-bit media instructions<br />

„ <strong>64</strong>-bit media instructions<br />

„ x87 floating-point instructions<br />

Several instructions belong to—and are described identically<br />

in—multiple instruction subsets.<br />

Preface<br />

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