Enhanced stack unwind facility
US6014515A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 29, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jan 11, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 29, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/4812
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An enhanced unwind facility is more extensible, much faster, and uses smaller tables than presently known schemes. In broad terms, the unwind facility trades bytes that are used for addresses and region lengths in known schemes for a stream of bit fields parallel to the instruction stream. This arrangement allows an unwind library to compute a current regions' attributes by indexing instead of by a binary search. This arrangement also leads to an extensible design that does not require significant effort on an occurrence-by-occurrence basis in both the linker and the unwind library when additional services are required, e.g. register use areas for the debugging of optimized code.
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