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G - Physics
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354/232
G06F 13/00 (2006.01) G06F 9/30 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1069219
OVERSIZED DATA DETECTION HARDWARE FOR DATA PROCESSORS WHICH STORE DATA AT VARIABLE LENGTH DESTINATIONS Abstract of the Disclosure Size exception detection hardware for use with a digital data processor arithmetic unit for providing high-speed detection of lost data which results from storing an arithmetic result in a destination which is smaller than one or both of the source operands. In response to data processing machine instructions, the arithmetic unit performs arithmetic operations on variable length operands and sends the arithmetic results to variable length destinations. The operand and destination lengths are specified by length fields in the machine instruction. The destination length is specified independently of at least one of the operand lengths and hence may be less than such operand length. The size exception detection hardware looks at both the output field of the arithmetic unit and the destination length field in the machine instruction and generates a size exception program interrupt signal when the part of the arith- metic unit output field located outside of the destination length contains significant data. The size exception interrupt is generated during the same machine control cycle during which the arithmetic unit performs the arithmetic operation which gives rise to the size exception.
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Healey Robert A.
Jeremiah Thomas L.
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