G - Physics – 06 – F
Patent
G - Physics
06
F
G06F 9/38 (2006.01) G06F 9/312 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2366348
There is disclosed a data processor comprising: 1) an instruction execution pipeline comprising N processing stages for executing a load instruction; 2) a status register for storing a modifiable configuration value, the modifiable configuration value having a first value indicating the data processor is capable of executing a misaligned access handling routine and a second value indicating the data processor is not capable of executing a misaligned access handling routine; 3) a misalignment detection circuit for determining if the load instruction performs a misaligned access to a target address of the load instruction and, in response to a determination that the load instruction does perform a misaligned access, generating a misalignment flag; and 4) exception control circuitry capable of detecting the misalignment flag and in response thereto determining if the modifiable configuration value is equal to the first value.
Brown Geoffrey M.
Faraboschi Paolo
Homewood Frederick Mark Owen
Starr Alexander J.
Blake Cassels & Graydon Llp
Hewlett-Packard Company
Stmicroelectronics Inc.
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