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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1999
Koji Zaiki, Osakafu, JP;
Takao Yamamoto, Osakafu, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
A processor for controlling execution of instructions stored in a main storage and interruption processing, comprises: interruption processing control device operable to accept an interruption request, analyze an accepted interruption to obtain a cause of the interruption, and generate information indicating a storage position in the main storage of a procedure for processing the cause of the interruption; specific address holding device operable to hold first address information obtained from the information generated by the interruption processing control device; and instruction execution control device operable to decide whether or not the first address information held by the specific address holding device is to be used as information indicating a storage position of an instruction to be executed and control instruction execution according to a decision result.