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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Marnix C. Vlot, Eindhoven, NL;
Paul E. R. Lippens, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/32 ;
Abstract
In an instruction a relative jump distance is expressed as a number of instructions rather than as a number of addresses. Instructions have various lengths. After encountering the instruction the processing device loads the following instructions but suppresses execution of a set of instructions that consists of the number of instructions expressed in the relative jump instruction.