pseudoinstruction
nounEtymology From pseudo- + instruction.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences 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.1967, Information processing machines, number 13, page 239: