INDIRECT BRANCHING PROGRAM, AND INDIRECT BRANCHING METHOD

摘要

A processor 100 reads an interpreter program 200a to start an interpreter. The interpreter makes branch prediction by executing, in place of an indirect branch instruction that is necessary for execution of a source program 200b, storing branch destination addresses in the indirect branch instruction in a link register 120c (the processor 100 internally stacks the branch destination addresses also in a return address stack 130) in inverse order and reading the addresses from the return address stack 130 in one at a time manner.