Linux Standard Base Specification for the Itanium™ Architecture 1.3
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Branching

Branching is described in IA-64 Processor Reference: Intel® Itanium ™ Processor Reference Manual for Software Development, Chapter 4.5.

Branch Instruction

See IA-64 Processor Reference: Intel® Itanium ™ Processor Reference Manual for Software Development, Chapter 4.5.

Absolute switch() code

Conforming applications shall not use absolute addressing.

Position-Independent switch() code

Where there are several possible targets for a branch, the compiler may use a number of different code generation strategies. See Itanium ™ Software Conventions & Runtime Architecture Guide, Chapter 9.1.7.

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