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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2003
Sandeep Dutta, Foster City, CA (US);
Paul Beusterien, Alameda, CA (US);
Tomas Evensen, Foster City, CA (US);
Sandeep Dutta, Foster City, CA (US);
Paul Beusterien, Alameda, CA (US);
Tomas Evensen, Foster City, CA (US);
Wind River Systems, Inc., Alameda, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system may be implemented, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, to permit transformation of software to use conditional execution instructions. According to the preferred embodiment, a system and method is provided to transform machine instructions (for example, machine instructions generated by a source code compiler) to make use of the conditional execution features of a processor. The preferred embodiment thus reduces code size and better utilizes the instruction pipeline and cache.