Architectural state

Architectural state

The architectural state is the part of the CPU which holds the state of a process, this includes:
* Control registers
** Instruction Flag Registers (such as EFLAGS in x86)
** Interrupt Mask Registers
** Memory management unit Registers
** Status registers
* General purpose registers (such as AX,BX,CX,DX,etc. in x86)
** Adder Registers
** Address Registers
** Counter Registers
** Index Registers
** Stack Registers
** String Registers

This does not include actual computation units as an ALU for instance.


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