Architectural state
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The architectural state is the part of the CPU which holds the state of a process, this includes:
- Control registers
- Instruction Flag Registers (such as EFLAGS in x86)
- Interrupt Mask Registers
- Memory management unit Registers
- Status registers
- General purpose registers (such as AX,BX,CX,DX,etc. in x86)
- Adder Registers
- Address Registers
- Counter Registers
- Index Registers
- Stack Registers
- String Registers
This does not include actual computation units as an ALU for instance.
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