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ISALIST(5)							    ISALIST(5)

NAME
       isalist - the native instruction sets known to Solaris software

DESCRIPTION
       The  possible  instruction  set	names  returned	 by isalist(1) and the
       SI_ISALIST command of sysinfo(2) are listed here.

       The list is ordered within an instruction set family in the sense  that
       later  names are generally faster then earlier names; note that this is
       in the reverse order than listed by isalist(1) and sysinfo(2).  In  the
       following list of values, numbered entries generally represent increas‐
       ing performance; lettered entries are either mutually exclusive or can‐
       not be ordered.

       This  feature  is  obsolete  and	 may be removed in a future version of
       Solaris. The lists below do not reflect all the	extensions  that  have
       been made by modern processors. See getisax(2) for a better way to han‐
       dle instruction set extensions.

   SPARC Platforms
       Where appropriate, correspondence with a	 given	value  of  the	-xarch
       option of Sun's C 4.0 compiler is indicated. Other compilers might have
       similar options.

       1a. sparc
				  Indicates the SPARC V8 instruction  set,  as
				  defined  in	The SPARC Architecture Manual,
				  Version 8, Prentice-Hall, Inc.,  1992.  Some
				  instructions	(such  as integer multiply and
				  divide, FSMULD, and all floating point oper‐
				  ations  on quad operands) can be emulated by
				  the kernel on certain systems.

       1b. sparcv7
				  Same as sparc. This corresponds to code pro‐
				  duced	 with  the -xarch=v7 option of Sun's C
				  4.0 compiler.

       2. sparcv8-fsmuld
				  Like sparc, except that integer multiply and
				  divide  must	be  executed in hardware. This
				  corresponds  to  code	 produced   with   the
				  -xarch=v8a option of Sun's C 4.0 compiler.

       3. sparcv8
				  Like sparcv8-fsmuld, except that FSMULD must
				  also be executed in  hardware.  This	corre‐
				  sponds  to  code produced with the -xarch=v8
				  option of Sun's C 4.0 compiler.

       4. sparcv8plus
				  Indicates the SPARC V8 instruction set  plus
				  those	 instructions in the SPARC V9 instruc‐
				  tion set, as defined in  The SPARC Architec‐
				  ture Manual, Version 9, Prentice-Hall, 1994,
				  that can be used according to	 The V8+ Tech‐
				  nical	 Specification.	 This  corresponds  to
				  code produced with the -xarch=v8plus	option
				  of Sun's C 4.0 compiler.

       5a. sparcv8plus+vis
				  Like sparcv8plus, with the addition of those
				  UltraSPARC I Visualization Instructions that
				  can  be used according to  The V8+ Technical
				  Specification. This corresponds to code pro‐
				  duced	 with  the  -xarch=v8plusa  option  of
				  Sun's C 4.0 compiler.

       5b. sparcv8plus+fmuladd
				  Like sparcv8plus, with the addition  of  the
				  Fujitsu  SPARC64  floating  multiply-add and
				  multiply-subtract instructions.

       6. sparcv9
				  Indicates the SPARC V9 instruction  set,  as
				  defined  in	The SPARC Architecture Manual,
				  Version 9, Prentice-Hall, 1994.

       7a. sparcv9+vis
				  Like	sparcv9,  with	the  addition  of  the
				  UltraSPARC I Visualization Instructions.

       7b. sparcv9+vis2
				  Like	sparcv9,  with	the  addition  of  the
				  UltraSPARC III Visualization Instructions.

       7c. sparcv9+fmuladd
				  Like	sparcv9,  with	the  addition  of  the
				  Fujitsu  SPARC64  floating  multiply-add and
				  multiply-subtract instructions.

   x86 Platforms
       1. i386
			     The Intel 80386 instruction set, as described  in
			     The  i386	Microprocessor	Programmer's Reference
			     Manual.

       2. i486
			     The Intel 80486 instruction set, as described  in
			     The  i486	Microprocessor	Programmer's Reference
			     Manual. (This is effectively i386, plus the CMPX‐
			     CHG, BSWAP, and XADD instructions.)

       3. pentium
			     The  Intel	 Pentium instruction set, as described
			     in	 The Pentium Processor User's Manual. (This is
			     effectively  i486,	 plus  the CPU_ID instruction,
			     and any  features	that  the  CPU_ID  instruction
			     indicates are present.)

       4. pentium+mmx
			     Like  pentium,  with the MMX instructions guaran‐
			     teed present.

       5. pentium_pro
			     The  Intel	  PentiumPro   instruction   set,   as
			     described	in   The PentiumPro Family Developer's
			     Manual. (This is effectively  pentium,  with  the
			     CMOVcc,  FCMOVcc,	FCOMI,	and RDPMC instructions
			     guaranteed present.)

       6. pentium_pro+mmx
			     Like pentium_pro, with the MMX instructions guar‐
			     anteed present.

       7. amd64
			     The  AMD Opteron instruction set, as described in
			     the AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual.

SEE ALSO
       isalist(1), getisax(2), sysinfo(2)

				 Mar 20, 2008			    ISALIST(5)
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