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First, it pushes the value of the program counter, the current memory location of your code being executed, onto the stack and increments the stack pointer. Then it jumps to the address of START ...

I hope these questions aren't getting tedious.So I'm writing another context-switching function (based on another suggestion), since the one I used before clearly didn't work. My new function is ...

Return-Address Stack (RAS) has been widely used in modern high-performance microprocessor to predict the return address of a routine. But speculative execution frequently corrupts the RAS, making ...