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Glossary
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Exponent
In the binary representation of a floating-point number, the exponent is the component that
normally signifies the integer power to which the value two is raised in determining the value
of the represented number. See also Biased exponent.
G
General-purpose register (GPR)
Any of the 32 registers in the general-purpose register file. These registers provide the
source operands and destination results for all integer data manipulation instructions.
Integer load instructions move data from memory to GPRs and store instructions move data
from GPRs to memory.
I
IEEE 754
A standard written by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that defines
operations and representations of binary floating-point arithmetic.
Inexact
Loss of accuracy in an arithmetic operation when the rounded result differs from the
infinitely precise value with unbounded range.
L
Least-significant bit (lsb) The bit of least value in an address, register, data element, or
instruction encoding.
Little-endian
A byte-ordering method in memory where the address n of a word corresponds to the least-
significant byte. In an addressed memory word, the bytes are ordered (left to right) 3, 2, 1, 0,
with 3 being the most-significant byte. See Big-endian.
M
Mnemonic
The abbreviated name of an instruction used for coding.
Modulo
A value v which lies outside the range of numbers representable by an n-bit wide destination
type is replaced by the low-order n bits of the two’s complement representation of v.
Most-significant bit (msb)
The highest-order bit in an address, registers, data element, or instruction encoding.
N
NaN
An abbreviation for ‘Not a Number’; a symbolic entity encoded in floating-point format. There
are two types of NaNs—signaling NaNs (SNaNs) and quiet NaNs (QNaNs).
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