Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Indexes


A list of record surrogates arranged in order of some attribute expressible in machine-orderable form. To produce a machine-orderable set of record surrogates, as in indexing a book. To compute a machine location by indirection, as is done by index registers. The portion of a computer instruction which indicates what index register (if any) is to be used to modify the address of an instruction.

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