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OpenVMS Alpha Guide to 64-Bit Addressing and VLM Features

Contents (summary)

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Overview of Virtual Address Space
Chapter 3 System Services Support for 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 4 Memory Management VLM Features
Chapter 5 RMS Interface Enhancements for 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 6 File System Support for 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 7 OpenVMS Alpha Device Support for 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 8 OpenVMS Alpha 64-Bit API Guidelines
Chapter 9 OpenVMS Alpha Tools and Utilities That Support 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 10 Language and Pointer Support for 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 11 DEC C RTL Support for 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 12 MACRO--32 Programming Support for 64-Bit Addressing
Appendix A C Macros for 64-Bit Addressing
Appendix B MACRO-32 Macros for 64-Bit Addressing
Appendix C 64-Bit Example Program
Appendix D VLM Example Program
Index
Figures
Tables

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Using 64-Bit Addresses
- 1.2 Using VLM Features
Chapter 2 Overview of Virtual Address Space
- 2.1 Traditional OpenVMS 32-Bit Virtual Address Space Layout
- 2.2 OpenVMS Alpha 64-Bit Virtual Address Space Layout
  - 2.2.1 Process-Private Space
  - 2.2.2 System Space
  - 2.2.3 Page Table Space
  - 2.2.4 Virtual Address Space Size
- 2.3 Virtual Regions
  - 2.3.1 Regions Within P0 Space and P1 Space
  - 2.3.2 64-Bit Program Region
  - 2.3.3 User-Defined Virtual Regions
Chapter 3 System Services Support for 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 4 Memory Management VLM Features
- 4.1 Overview of VLM Features
- 4.2 Memory-Resident Global Sections
- 4.3 Shared Page Tables
  - 4.3.1 Memory Requirements for Private Page Tables
  - 4.3.2 Shared Page Tables and Private Data
- 4.4 Expandable Global Page Table
- 4.5 Reserved Memory Registry
  - 4.5.1 Using the Reserved Memory Registry
    - 4.5.1.1 Reserved Memory Registry Data File
    - 4.5.1.2 AUTOGEN
    - 4.5.1.3 Adding Entries to the Reserved Memory Registry
  - 4.5.2 Removing Entries from the Reserved Memory Registry
    - 4.5.2.1 Allocating Reserved Memory
    - 4.5.2.2 Freeing Reserved Memory
    - 4.5.2.3 Displaying Reserved Memory
    - 4.5.2.4 Using Reserved Memory
    - 4.5.2.5 Returning Reserved Memory
  - 4.5.3 Application Configuration
Chapter 5 RMS Interface Enhancements for 64-Bit Addressing
- 5.1 RAB64 Data Structure
- 5.2 Using the 64-Bit RAB Extension
- 5.3 New Macros
Chapter 6 File System Support for 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 7 OpenVMS Alpha Device Support for 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 8 OpenVMS Alpha 64-Bit API Guidelines
Chapter 9 OpenVMS Alpha Tools and Utilities That Support 64-Bit Addressing
- 9.1 OpenVMS Debugger
- 9.2 OpenVMS Alpha System-Code Debugger
- 9.3 Delta/XDelta
- 9.4 LIB$ and CVT$ Facilities of the OpenVMS Run-Time Library
- 9.5 Watchpoint Utility
- 9.6 SDA
Chapter 10 Language and Pointer Support for 64-Bit Addressing
Chapter 11 DEC C RTL Support for 64-Bit Addressing
- 11.1 Using the DEC C Run-Time Library
- 11.2 Obtaining 64-Bit Pointers to Memory
- 11.3 DEC C Header Files
- 11.4 Functions Affected
  - 11.4.1 No Pointer-Size Impact
  - 11.4.2 Functions Accepting Both Pointer Sizes
  - 11.4.3 Functions With Two Implementations
  - 11.4.4 Functions Restricted to 32-Bit Pointers
- 11.5 Reading Header Files
Chapter 12 MACRO--32 Programming Support for 64-Bit Addressing
- 12.1 Guidelines for 64-Bit Addressing
- 12.2 New and Changed Components for 64-Bit Addressing
- 12.3 Passing 64-Bit Values
  - 12.3.1 Calls With a Fixed-Size Argument List
    - 12.3.1.1 Usage Notes for $SETUP_CALL64, $PUSH_ARG64, and $CALL64
  - 12.3.2 Calls With a Variable-Size Argument List
- 12.4 Declaring 64-Bit Arguments
  - 12.4.1 Usage Notes for QUAD_ARGS
- 12.5 Specifying 64-Bit Address Arithmetic
  - 12.5.1 Dependence on Wrapping Behavior of Longword Operations
- 12.6 Sign Extending and Checking
- 12.7 Alpha Instruction Built-ins
- 12.8 Calculating Page-Size Dependent Values
- 12.9 Creating and Using Buffers in 64-Bit Address Space
- 12.10 Coding for Moves Longer Than 64K Bytes
- 12.11 Using the MACRO--32 Compiler
Appendix A C Macros for 64-Bit Addressing
- Command 1 DESCRIPTOR64
- Command 2 $is_desc64
- Command 3 $is_32bits
Appendix B MACRO-32 Macros for 64-Bit Addressing
- B.1 Macros for Manipulating 64-Bit Addresses
- Command 4 $SETUP_CALL64
- Command 5 $PUSH_ARG64
- Command 6 $CALL64
- B.2 Macros for Checking Sign Extension and Descriptor Format
- Command 7 $IS_32BITS
- Command 8 $IS_DESC64
Appendix C 64-Bit Example Program
Appendix D VLM Example Program
Index
Figures
Tables

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