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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1995
David Robert Engebretsen, Denmark, WI (US);
Steven Lee Gregor, Endicott, NY (US);
Mayan Moudgill, Ossining, NY (US);
John Christopher Willis, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A processor includes an alias unit having high-speed memory storage locations allocated at compile time for variable-sized data objects. The storage locations are accessed through a table of alias entries that consist of a base address in the processor memory to which the alias entry is aliased, the number of bytes in the alias entry, and a base address that points to the first byte of alias buffer memory representing the value of the alias entry. Each alias entry is given a unique name from a small name space that is encoded into relevant machine opcodes. The names are used to reference the data objects. The processor can optionally include a data cache and can be used in either single processor or multi-tasking environments. Reference to a memory location address associated with an alias register entry would be redirected to the intermediate storage.