Device for detecting an overlap of operands to be accessed

摘要

In order to guarantee the instruction execution sequence in a pipeline control data processing system, the present overlap detector device detects whether or not the operands overlap each other in access width units by comparing the store address specified by a store instruction with the fetch address contained in a fetch instruction following the store instruction. Moreover, the overlap detector device detects whether or not an overlap occurs in an area of the access width based on the store mark, the address in the access width unit stored in the fetch address, and the fetch data length. The overlap detector device detects the presence or absence of an overlap according to the results of operations for detecting these two overlap conditions.