Macro Instruction (Noun)
Meaning
A single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The programmer defined a macro instruction called MOVEM to handle multiple registers simultaneously in assembly code.
- In compiler design, a macro instruction may produce varying lengths of machine code depending on the target platform.
- When the programmer wrote the macro instruction 'REPEAT', it was replaced by a sequence of machine instructions before execution.
- The microprocessor's limited command set necessitated the use of macro instructions to perform tasks like integer multiplication.
- Using a macro instruction library sped up development time by simplifying complex operations in low-level programming.