Program counter
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program-counter-217-1923217
title:
Program counter
text:
The program counter (PC), commonly called the instruction pointer (IP) in Intel x86 and Itanium microprocessors, and sometimes called the instruction address register (IAR), the instruction counter, or just part of the instruction sequencer, is a processor register that indicates where a computer is in its program sequence. Usually, the PC is incremented after fetching an instruction, and holds the memory address of the next instruction that would be executed. Processors usually fetch instructio
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Processor register that indicates where a computer is in its program sequence
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_counter
date created:
2002-06-28T20:36:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T02:23:13Z
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