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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
David Wayne Clift, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 ;
Abstract
A technique for enhancing performance for code transitions of floating point and packed data modes, in which a tag incorrect (TINC) bit is used to indicate a potential fault condition when transitioning between the modes. When tags of a floating point/packed data registers are not at the expected value for the mode transition, the TINC bit is used to a substitute condition which prevents the generation of the fault condition.