pseudoinstruction

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ instruction

Noun

pseudoinstruction (plural pseudoinstructions)

  1. (programming) 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.
    • 1967, Information processing machines, number 13, page 239:
      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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