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Architectural state
The
architectural
state
is the part of the
CPU
which
holds
the state of a process. This is typically held in
processor registers
and includes:
Control registers
*
Instruction
flag
registers
*Interrupt
mask
registers
*
Memory management unit
registers
*
Status
registers
General purpose registers
*Adder registers
*Address registers
*Counter registers
*Index registers
*Stack registers
*
String
registers
Pipeline registers, between
stages
of an
instruction pipeline
This does not include actual
computation
units
as an
ALU
for
instance
.
