APPENDIX F. CHEATSHEETS APPENDIX F. CHEATSHEETS
FPUFloating-point unit............................................................................................ .viii
CISCComplex instruction set computing............................................................................. 12
RISCReduced instruction set computing.............................................................................. 3
GUIGraphical user interface........................................................................................ 668
RTTIRun-time type information.................................................................................... 536
BSSBlock Started by Symbol........................................................................................ 17
SIMDSingle instruction, multiple data.............................................................................. 183
BSODBlack Screen of Death....................................................................................... 661
DBMSDatabase management systems............................................................................. .xix
ISAInstruction Set Architecture..................................................................................... .iv
HPCHigh-Performance Computing................................................................................. 492
SEHStructured Exception Handling :68.3 on page 677.............................................................. 28
ELFExecutable file format widely used in *NIX systems including Linux............................................. .xix
TIBThread Information Block...................................................................................... 269
PICPosition Independent Code:67.1 on page 663................................................................... .xix
NANNot a Number................................................................................................ 884
NOPNo OPeration.................................................................................................. 19
BEQ(PowerPC, ARM) Branch if Equal................................................................................ 85
BNE(PowerPC, ARM) Branch if Not Equal........................................................................... 196
BLR(PowerPC) Branch to Link Register............................................................................. 731
XOReXclusive OR................................................................................................. 889
MCUMicrocontroller unit.......................................................................................... 466
RAMRandom-access memory....................................................................................... 72
EGAEnhanced Graphics Adapter................................................................................... 868
VGAVideo Graphics Array.......................................................................................... 868
APIApplication programming interface............................................................................. 628