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pseudoinstruction

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + instruction.

  1. derived from instructio
  2. derived from instruccion
  3. inherited from instruccioun
  4. prefixed as pseudoinstruction — “pseudo + instruction”

Definitions

  1. A command that resembles, but is not in fact, a machine instruction, such as a special…

    A command that resembles, but is not in fact, a machine instruction, such as a special directive or a command that is mapped to a sequence of real instructions.

    • The compiler constructs one or several instructions corresponding to the respective pseudoinstruction and adds them to the object program just being formed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudoinstruction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA