Instruction substitution mechanism in an instruction handling unit of a data processing system
US4439828A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 27, 1981 |
| Grant date | Mar 27, 1984 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 27, 2001 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/3853
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Buffered, pre-fetched instructions in the instruction handling portion of a data processing system are examined to detect sequences of predetermined instructions to effect generation of a substitute instruction to be executed by an execution unit in place of the first instruction of the sequence to perform the functions specified by all of the instructions of the sequence.
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