ia60

ia60 refers to a specific designation within the Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manuals, often found in volumes pertaining to the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures. It typically signifies a section or chapter dedicated to the instruction set architecture, detailing the behavior, encoding, and usage of various processor instructions. These manuals are crucial resources for software developers, compiler writers, and system designers who need a deep understanding of how to interact with Intel processors at the lowest level.

The content within sections labeled "ia60" would cover a wide range of topics. This could include the definition of general-purpose registers, segment registers, and control registers, as well as the various addressing modes available for accessing memory. It would also meticulously describe the function and operands of individual instructions, such as data transfer instructions, arithmetic and logical instructions, control flow instructions (jumps, calls, returns), and string manipulation instructions. Furthermore, it might detail specific instruction extensions like MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4, AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512, which introduce new capabilities for multimedia processing, scientific computing, and other performance-critical applications. The precise scope of "ia60" depends on the specific volume and revision of the Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual being referenced.