Indirect function call instructions in a synchronous parallel thread processor

An indirect branch instruction takes an address register as an argument in order to provide indirect function call capability for single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) processor architectures. The indirect branch instruction is used to implement indirect function calls, virtual function calls, a...

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Main Authors Mills Peter C, Coon Brett W, Nickolls John R, Lindholm John Erik, Nyland Lars
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 02.05.2017
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:An indirect branch instruction takes an address register as an argument in order to provide indirect function call capability for single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) processor architectures. The indirect branch instruction is used to implement indirect function calls, virtual function calls, and switch statements to improve processing performance compared with using sequential chains of tests and branches.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201213674890