First, compliance with the IEEE Standard 754-1985 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic [2] is sought. Second, Itanium and Itanium 2 processors rely on floating-point exceptions to implement completely ...

The Itanium and Itanium 2 processors are the result of the Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design philosophy, aimed at maximizing performance by using a close software-hardware ...