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ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed a data processor comprising 1) a register stack comprising a plurality of architectural registers that stores operands required by instructions executed by the data processor; 2) an instruction execution pipeline comprising N processing stages, where each processing stage performs one of a plurality of execution steps associated with a pending instruction being executed by the instruction execution pipeline; and 3) at least one mapping register associated with at least one of the N processing stages, wherein the at least one mapping register stores mapping data that may be used to determine a physical register associated with an architectural stack register accessed by the pending instruction.

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