| 摘要 |
The present invention provides an efficient method for fetching instructions having a non-power of two size. In one embodiment, a method for fetching instructions having a non-power of two size includes fetching a first instruction cache line having a power of two size for storage in a first line buffer of an instruction fetch unit of a microprocessor, fetching a second instruction cache line having a power of two size for storage in a second line buffer of the instruction fetch unit, and extracting and aligning instruction data stored in the first line buffer and the second line buffer to provide an instruction having a non-power of two size.
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