pseudoinstruction
English
Etymology
pseudo- + instruction
Noun
pseudoinstruction (plural pseudoinstructions)
- (programming) 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.
- 1967, Information processing machines (issue 13, page 239)
- The compiler constructs one or several instructions corresponding to the respective pseudoinstruction and adds them to the object program just being formed.
- 1967, Information processing machines (issue 13, page 239)