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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2006
Brian Holscher, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Guillermo Rozas, Los Gatos, CA (US);
James Van Zoeren, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Dunn, Sammamish, WA (US);
Brian Holscher, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Guillermo Rozas, Los Gatos, CA (US);
James Van Zoeren, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Dunn, Sammamish, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Systems and methods for reordering processor instructions. In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, a microprocessor comprises circuitry to process an instruction extension, wherein the instruction extension is transparent to the programming model of the microprocessor. The instruction extension may comprise a field for indicating an offset from a memory structure pointer. The microprocessor includes circuitry for adding the offset to the memory structure pointer to indicate a specific element of the memory structure. The specific element of the memory structure comprises address information corresponding to speculative data.