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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jesus Corbal San Adrian, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Robert N. Hanek, Hollis, NH (US);
Warren E. Ferguson, Beaverton, OR (US);
Taraneh Bahrami, San Jose, CA (US);
Avi A. Tevet, Portland, OR (US);
Dennis R. Bradford, Portland, OR (US);
Michael Ferry, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Jingwei Zhang, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for performing a check on inputs to a mathematical instruction and selecting a default sequence efficiently managing the architectural state of a processor. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) to perform a plurality of mathematical operations using one or more source operands; instruction check logic to evaluate the source operands for a current mathematical instruction and to determine, based on the evaluation, whether to execute a default sequence of operations including executing the current mathematical instruction by the ALU or to jump to an alternate sequence of operations adapted to provide a result for the mathematical instruction having particular types of source operands more efficiently than the default sequence of operations.