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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2007
Applicant:
Mike Stephen Fulton, Maple Ridge, CA;
Inventor:
Mike Stephen Fulton, Maple Ridge, CA;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and data processing system for substituting a candidate instruction in application code being loaded during load time. Responsive to identifying the candidate instruction, a determination is made whether a hardware facility of the data processing system is present to execute the candidate instruction. If the hardware facility is absent from the data processing system, the candidate instruction is substituted with a second set of instructions.