Call and return instructions for saving and restoring different sets of context registers mapped to different call opcodes

Abstract

Systems, devices, circuitries, and methods are disclosed for identifying, within a call instruction, context registers for storing prior to a jump to another subroutine. In one example, a method includes receiving, while executing a first subroutine, a call instruction that includes a first opcode and identifies a first target address, wherein the first target address stores instructions for performing a second subroutine. A first set of context registers identified by the call instruction is determined and the content of the first set of context registers is stored in first memory allocated for context storage for the first subroutine prior to executing the instruction stored in the first target address.