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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 09, 1998
Rajasekhar Cherabuddi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjay Patel, Fremont, CA (US);
Adam R. Talcott, San Jose, CA (US);
Ramesh K. Panwar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for repairing a pipeline in response to a branch instruction having a branch, includes the steps of providing a branch repair table having a plurality of entries, allocating an entry in the branch repair table for the branch instruction, storing a target address, a fall-through address, and repair information in the entry in the branch repair table, processing the branch instruction to determine whether the branch was taken, and repairing the pipeline in response to the repair information and the fall-through address in the entry in the branch repair table when the branch was not taken.