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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1996
Kin-Yip Liu, Millbrae, CA (US);
Ken Shoemaker, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Gary Hammond, Campbell, CA (US);
Anand Pai, San Jose, CA (US);
Krishna Yellamilli, Cupertino, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for scheduling a flag generating instruction and a subsequent instruction. The subsequent instruction has a data dependency on the flag generating instruction. The flag generating instruction is translated into first and second instructions. The subsequent instruction is translated into at least a third instruction. The first instruction, when executed, generates a result and intermediate flag generation data. The second instruction, when executed, generates a plurality of flags. The first instruction is scheduled to execute before the second and third instructions. The second instruction is scheduled to execute before the third instruction if the third instruction has a data dependency on the second instruction, otherwise the third instruction may be scheduled to execute before the second instruction.