Using this Tutorial

Conventions

Although this tutorial includes information about both the Microsoft* Windows* and the Linux* versions of the Intel® compilers, the name of a compiler option on Windows is often used as a generic reference to an option that runs on both Windows and Linux.

Scrolling

Some topics contain more information than can appear on the screen at once. Be sure to pay attention to the presence of the scroll bar to know if you have read all the content in a topic.

Glossary Definitions

Throughout the tutorial, you can click on terms that appear as hyperlinks to view glossary definitions of those terms. Alternatively, you can click on glossary below to view the glossary at any time.

Information Specific to a Processor or Architecture

Some topics in this tutorial discuss information that is specific to a processor or architecture. The following icons indicate when such is the case:

Information specific to the IA-32 architecture

Information specific to the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor

Information specific to the Itanium® architecture