Method of identifying and self-modifying code

Details Method of identifying and self-modifying code Method of identifying and self-modifying code

1997-04-02

1998-11-10

Treat, William M.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

711125, 395392, G06F 938

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active

058359494

ABSTRACT:
A system and method of readily identifying and handling self-modifying variable length instructions in a pipelined processor is disclosed employing index tags associated with each stage of the execution pipeline wherein the index tags identify the cache line numbers in the instruction cache from which the instructions originate.

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