Pseudoinstruction

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

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

Etymology

From pseudo- + instruction.

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