The Sparc Architecture Manual/Version 9

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This is the definitive reference for the latest generation of the enormously popular and influential SPARC microprocessors the 64-bit SPARC-V9 which is now being used by a variety of computer system vendors and is destined to set the standard for high performance capacity into the next century. Describes the architecture and instruction set of the 64-bit SPARC-V9 a RISC-style processor architecture that supports a linear address space accessed by 64-bit addresses fault-tolerance object-oriented software lightweight threads and superscalar and multiprocessor implementations. MARKETS: For implementors of the SPARC architecture microprocessor designers hardware engineers developers of SPARC-V9 system software software engineers who write SPARC-V9 software in assembly language; and for students of computer architecture.