Branching is described in IA-64 Processor Reference: Intel® Itanium ™ Processor Reference Manual for Software Development, Chapter 4.5.
See IA-64 Processor Reference: Intel® Itanium ™ Processor Reference Manual for Software Development, Chapter 4.5.
Conforming applications shall not use absolute addressing.
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.