Patent ID: 11928470
Assignee: VERISILICON HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A processor for executing a program, comprising:
a cache including a plurality of cache lines, and
a processing unit that performs operations including:
determining whether a requested instruction group in a current cache line of the cache lines includes an End-of-Group (EOG) marker; and
when the EOG marker is absent from the requested instruction group, advancing a program counter directly to a start of a subsequent cache line that follows the current cache line based on a straddling group indicator in the current cache line, wherein the subsequent cache line is subsequent to one of the cache lines that immediately follows the current cache line when the straddling group indicator indicates that the requested instruction group is a straddling instruction group.