Tag
immediates
- Jul 2, 2026 Immediate Encoding and How Arbitrary Constants Get Materialized Why an instruction can hold only a small constant, how sign extension and scaled fields are packed into the word, and the instruction sequences that build a full-width value. computer architecture
- Nov 24, 2025 Fixed-Width Instruction Encoding and Where the Fields Go How a 32-bit instruction divides into opcode, register and immediate fields, why the register fields keep the same bit offsets across formats, and what that costs in reachable constants. computer architecture