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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2007
Richard Win Thaik, San Jose, CA (US);
John Gregory Favor, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Joseph Byron Rowlands, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Leonard Eric Shar, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Matthew William Ashcraft, Belmont, CA (US);
Ivan Pavle Radivojevic, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Win Thaik, San Jose, CA (US);
John Gregory Favor, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Joseph Byron Rowlands, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Leonard Eric Shar, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Matthew William Ashcraft, Belmont, CA (US);
Ivan Pavle Radivojevic, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
An instruction processing circuit includes a decoder circuit operable to receive a sequence of instructions and to decode the received sequence of instructions into a first type of sequence of operations, and a trace builder circuit operable to receive at least a portion of the sequence of operations of the first type and to generate, based thereon, a second type of sequence of operations, where the at least a portion of the sequence of operations of the first type represents a first portion of the sequence of instructions, where the first portion of the sequence of instructions includes at most one conditional control transfer instruction that, when present, ends the first portion of the sequence of instructions, and where the sequence of operations of the second type also represents the first portion of the sequence of instructions.