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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2000

Filed:

Jun. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

Marc Tremblay, Palo Alto, CA (US);

James Michael O'Connor, Union City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711132 ; 711120 ; 711170 ;
Abstract

The present invention provides a unique multi stack memory system to provide access to multiple portions of the method frames of a stack based computing system. In one embodiment of the invention, a multi-stack memory system includes a first stack configured to store a first frame component of a first method frame and a second frame component of a second method frame. A second stack is configured to store a second frame component of the first method frame and a first frame component of second method frame. The first frame component of the method frames can be for example an operand stack. The second frame components of the method frames can be, for example, arguments and local variable areas.


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