program counter

English

Alternative forms

Noun

program counter (plural program counters)

  2. (computing, countable) A register that stores the address of the current (or next) instruction to be carried out by the processor.
    Synonym: instruction pointer

Translations

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.