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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1999
Kevin David Safford, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Patrick Knebel, Ft Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods for emulating an instruction set extension, comprising providing data to be operated upon, executing a first instruction with respect to a first portion of the data without committing the results of the first executed instruction, if no unmasked exceptions occur with respect to the first portion of the data, executing a second instruction with respect to a second portion of the data, and if no unmasked exceptions occur with respect to the second portion of the data, committing the results of the second executed instruction and again executing the first instruction with respect to the first portion of the data. If the first instruction is executed again, its results are committed. A handler is invoked if an unmasked exception occurs.