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AMD64 Technology 24594 Rev. 3.10 February 2005overflowThe condition in which a floating-point number is larger inmagnitude than the largest, finite, positive or negativenumber that can be represented in the data-type formatbeing used.packedSee vector.PAEPhysical-address extensions.physical memoryActual memory, consisting of main memory <strong>and</strong> cache.probeA check for an address in a processor’s caches or internalbuffers. External probes originate outside the processor, <strong>and</strong>internal probes originate within the processor.protected modeA submode of legacy mode.quadwordFour words, or eight bytes, or 64 bits.RAZRead as zero (0), regardless of what is written.real-address modeSee real mode.real modeA short name for real-address mode, a submode of legacymode.relativeReferencing with a displacement (also called offset) from aninstruction pointer rather than the base of a code segment.Contrast with absolute.reservedFields marked as reserved may be used at some future time.xxiiPreface

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