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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 ;
Abstract
A group of registers,consists of a plurality of general-purpose registers R,R,A flag is provided for each of these general-purpose registers. When data to be written to, for instance, general-purpose register R,is zero, the register flag is set in conjunction with the data writing. Thereafter, it is possible to determine with a conditional branching instruction if the general-purpose register R,data is zero by looking at the flag, and there is no need to read out data and perform a computation.