COMPUTER WITH AUTOMATIC MAPPING OF MEMORY CONTENTS INTO MACHINE REGISTERS

摘要

The local variables of procedures are automatically mapped form main memory of a computer into a circular buffer comprising machine registers. As instructions are fetched from the main memory, the instructions are partially decoded by adding the stack pointer to the offset and then stored in an instruction cache. In cases where the sum of the memory locations required by the procedures exceed available register memory, the contents of the registers nearest the maximum stack pointer are flushed back to main memory.