Instruction - Instruction Pointer Register

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Instruction - Instruction Pointer Register

About

The instruction pointer register is a control register that holds the location of the next instruction in a pipeline, and increments itself after every instruction.

If every instructions had a size of 3 bytes (operands included), the instruction pointer would be incremented by 3 after each instruction is executed.

Management

Set

The value of the instruction pointer itself can be set to some arbitrary location in memory.

Documentation / Reference




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