The Program Counter

addi $1, $0, 43

addi $2, $0, 2

addi $3, $0, 0

PC

addi $3, $0, 1

x = 43; // addi $1, $0, 43

y = 2; // addi $2, $0, 2

same = 0; // addi $3, $0, 0

if (x == y)

same = 1; // addi $3, $0, 1 execute if x == y

Clearly, this is not correct

We cannot always execute both 0x10008 and 0x1000c

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