Timeline for Program counter in ISA with multi-word size for instructions
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| Aug 18, 2022 at 13:57 | comment | added | gnasher729 | Think about it: If you increased the PC by 8 bytes, what good would a 5 byte instruction do you? You might as well fill it with 3 more bytes of information. | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 11:28 | comment | added | user52174 | I assumed that the next was stored (if the instruction was larger than the word size) after the slots the instruction required. If it required two words, then after two. I state this in my question (I state where I think the next instruction is stored. ) But, now a user commented that the memory for instructions is addressed per-byte. And that the program counter would be incremented 5 times for 5 bytes. | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 11:24 | history | answered | gnasher729 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |