Patent ID: 11954028
Assignee: ARM LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising when determining, from a plurality of available modifiers, which of the plurality of available modifiers should be used together with the memory address value for indicating the memory location at which the encoded block of data is to be stored:
determining whether a memory location at which the encoded block of data is to be stored would exceed a memory address range that could otherwise be accessed based on a current modifier value;
and when it is determined that the memory location at which the encoded block of data is to be stored would exceed the memory address range that could otherwise be accessed based on the current modifier value, selecting a different modifier from the plurality of modifiers such that the memory location at which the encoded block of data is to be stored can be accessed.