Storing the most significant and the least significant bytes of characters at non-contiguous addresses

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990500-B2
Application number	US-201313766133-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 13, 2013
Priority date	Aug 24, 2010
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

In an embodiment, an indicator is set to indicate that all of a plurality of most significant bytes of characters in a character array are zero. A first index and an input character are received. The input character comprises a first most significant byte and a first least significant byte. The first most significant byte is stored at a first storage location and the first least significant byte is stored at a second storage location, wherein the first storage location and the second storage location have non-contiguous addresses. If the first most significant byte does not equal zero, the indicator is set to indicate that at least one of a plurality of most significant bytes of the characters in the character array is non-zero. The character array comprises the first most significant byte and the first least significant byte.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions, wherein the instructions when executed comprise:
setting an indicator to indicate that all of a plurality of most significant bytes of characters in a character array are zero;
receiving a first index and an input character comprising a first most significant byte and a first least significant byte;
storing the first most significant byte at a first storage location and the firs…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Arnold Jeremy A
• Moore Scott A
• Olson Gregory A
• Stec Eric J

Classifications

• G06F9/30018 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/45508

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F12/0877

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F12/0802 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/30043

  Physics · mapped topic